Parque Antena, Estepona (Pliocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (36.4° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 5.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit, for which stratigraphic relations are not discussed in text. AGE: Early Piacenzian or Middle Pliocene of Guerra Merchán et al. (2002). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, gray, sandy claystone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated specifically in text, but a shallow marine siliciciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Clays, indurated towards top. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the basis of figured specimens and facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by Landau & Marquet

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: Landau and Marquet. REPOSITORY: Landau personal collection, Marquet personal collection, and possivly the Institut. Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique.

Primary reference: B. Landau, R. Marquet, and M. Grigis. 2003. The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 1: Vetigastropoda. Paleontos 3:1-87 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80563: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.04.2008, edited by Katherine Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for major groups of gastropods covered in taxonomic treatments. Other major components of fauna (bivalvia) and minor components (e.g. coral) are not included. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and use of species and subgenus resolution assignments.
unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Bolma rugosa" = Bolma rugosus Linnaeus 1767 snail
Bolma granosa Borson 1821 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora graeca Linnaeus 1758 snail
Diodora gibberula Lamarck 1822 snail
Diodora italica Defrance 1820 snail
 Lepetellida - Scissurellidae
Scissurella costata d'Orbigny 1824 snail
 Lepetellida - Anatomidae
 Lepetellida - Lepetellidae
 Lepetellida - Addisoniidae
 Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis tuberculata Linnaeus 1758 abalone
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Tonnidae
Tonna galea2 Linnaeus 1758 tun shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
"Echinophoria intermedia" = Echinophoria intermedium2
"Echinophoria intermedia" = Echinophoria intermedium2 Brocchi 1814 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Sassia apenninica2 Sassi 1827 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
Apiocypraea parvoastensis3 Sacco 1894 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
"Erato pernana" = Erato (Eratopsis) pernana3
"Erato pernana" = Erato (Eratopsis) pernana3 Sacco 1894 snail
 Cocculinoidea - Cocculinidae
 Thecosomata - Cavoliniidae
Diacria trispinosa1 de Blainville 1821 snail
"Cavolinia vendryesiana" = Cavolinia marginata1 Bronn 1962 snail
Styliola subula1 Quoy and Gaimard 1827 snail
 Thecosomata - Limacinidae
Heliconoides inflata1 Orbigny 1836 snail