Where: Portugal (39.9° N, 8.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 9.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Carnide Sandston Formation, Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• late Zanclean - early Piacenzian
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; silty sandstone and conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: C. M. da Silva, B. Landau, R. Domènech and J. Martinell. 2010. Pliocene Atlantic molluscan assemblages from the Mondego Basin (Portugal): Age and palaeoceanographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 285:248-254 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 171579: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Ficus subintermedia fig shell | |
Distorsio cancellina Lamarck 1803 snail | |
Apiocypraea davidi Fontannes 1880 snail | |
Marginella aurisleporis margin shell | |
Favartia sp. Jousseaume 1880 murex snail | |
Persicula sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Cancilla alligata mitre shell | |
Solatia piscatoria snail | |
Amalda glandiformis Lamarck 1810 snail | |
Demoulia conglobata Brocchi 1814 snail | |
Latirus sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Gemmula contigua turrid | |
Hastula sp. Adams and Adams 1853 auger snail
Strioterebrum reticulare auger snail | |
Clavatula sp. Lamarck 1801 snail | |
Tribia uniangulata snail
Sveltia varicosa snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Palliolum excisum scallop | |
Callista italica venus clam
Paphia vetula Basterot 1825 venus clam
Circomphalus foliaceolamellosus venus clam |