Cap Rhir: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Bittium lacteum
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica catena da Costa 1778
recombined as Euspira catena
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca (Fossularca) lactea Linnaeus 1767
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 30.6° North, 9.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.6° North, 9.9° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Tyrrhenian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:127575
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:J. Sessa
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-18 06:41:56 Last modified:2012-05-17 15:41:56
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-05-18 06:41:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41616. G. Lecointre. 1952. Recherches sur le Neogene et le Quaternaire marins de la cote Atlantique du Maroc. Publications du Service geologique du Maroc 99(1,2):1-174 [J. Sessa/J. Sessa/S. Ávila]