Atalaya, Malaga: Pliocene, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Arca (Arca) tetragona Poli 1795
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Striarca (Striarca) lactea
Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) glycymeris (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Glycymeris glycymeris
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) bimaculata
subsp. bimaculata
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita (Brocchi 1814)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 36.5° North, 5.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° North, 5.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:71913
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-05-16 02:18:31 Last modified:2007-05-16 05:34:25
Access level:the public Released:2007-05-16 02:18:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24310.1% 4680M. C. Lozano Francisco, J. L. Vera Pelaez, and A. Guerra-Merchan. 1993. Arcoida (Mollusca, Bivalvia) del Plioceno de la provincia de Malaga, Espana [Pliocene Arcoida from Malaga, Spain]. Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona 3:157-188 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]