Agaete, Grand Canary Island: Early/Lower Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Spain
collected by Lecointre 1962, 1964, 1966

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Venus cassina Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo rugosus Linnaeus 1767
recombined as Bolma rugosus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella rustica
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius argenteus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus mediterraneus Hwass 1792
Gastropoda - Cymatiidae
Ranella marginata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys pesfelis
Chlamys flexuosa
Pecten jacobeus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima lima (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris bimaculatus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus verrucosus
Venus multilamella Lamarck 1818
recombined as Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella
Meretrix tumens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita (Glans) trapezia
original and current combination Glans
SUBSPECIES: Cardita (Glans) trapezia muricata
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte castanea (Say 1822)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 28.1° North, 15.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.0° North, 15.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:80 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Interpreted by Lecointre et al (1967) as Tyrrhenian I=Ouljian (Late Pleistocene). Meco et al (2002) dated lava flows above and below an 85m asl beach deposit at Agaete as early Pleistocene, Isotope stage 63; see col.#128383

STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From deposit about 2 m in height.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:volcaniclastic,shelly/skeletal unlithified conglomeratic,calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Rolled lava pebbles with lenticular melobesian sand. LITHIFICATION: No stated, but figured specimens appear to come from unlithified sediments.
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collectors:Lecointre Collection dates:1962, 1964, 1966
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: G. Lecointre and H.G. Richards, 1962-1963. REPOSITORY: Laboratoire de Malacologie, Paris Museum (MNHN).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.

Meco et al (2002) are critical of the age assignment and taxonomic identifications of Lecointre et al, and suggest that these collections may be contaminated by archeological specimens: "possible errors caused by the mingling of fossils with archaeological remains consumer at the site, or perhaps by intricate synonyms that would be difficult to follow up, or because of incorrect taxonomical determinations, or inaccurate localities in museum collections."
Metadata
Database number:127361
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-10 11:53:15 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-05-10 11:53:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
41451. G. Lecointre, K. J. Tinkler, and H. G. Richards. 1967. The marine Quaternary of the Canary Islands. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 119(8):325-344 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]