Where: Corse, France (43.0° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 9.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Tyrrhenian, 130 ka?
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Zibrowius. 1995. The "southern" Astroides calycularis in the Pleistocene of the northern Mediterranean - an indicator of climatic changes (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). Geobios 28(1):9-16 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84939: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Sedentaria | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Spirorbis infundibulum Harris et al. 1964 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Lithophaga lithophaga Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Lasaea rubra" = Lasaea adansoni
"Lasaea rubra" = Lasaea adansoni Gmelin 1791 kelly clam | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Anthozoa | |
Astroides calycularis Pallas 1766 stony coral |