Locality 6, northeast Lanzarote: Holocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Gibbula cf. pennanti
Gastropoda - Patellidae
Patella lowei
Patella sp. Linnaeus 1758
Patella gomesi Drouet 1858
recombined as Patella candei gomesii
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium atratum (Born 1778)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella rustica
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella glabella (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Purpura (Thais) haemastoma (Linnaeus 1767)
recombined as Stramonita haemostoma
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita calyculata (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 29.1° North, 13.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.1° North, 13.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Flandrian STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: 1m beach
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: thin cemented limestones.
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,midden
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:128328
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:J. Sessa
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-06-06 08:16:07 Last modified:2012-06-05 17:16:07
Access level:authorizer only Released:2014-06-06 08:16:07
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]