Fuerteventura, Matas Blancas (Pleistocene of Spain)

Where: Canary Islands, Spain (28.2° N, 14.2° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 14.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• U/Th age: 112-106 ka, MIS 5c

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; calcareous sandstone

• biodetrital calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Meco, N. Petit-Maire, and J. L. Reyss. 1992. Le Courant de Canaries pendant le stade isotopique 5, d'apres la composition faunistique d'un haut niveau marin a Fuerteventura (28°N)[The Canary Islands Stream during isotopic stage 5, as implied by the fauna of a marine terrace at Fuerteventura (28°N)]. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, serie 2 314:203-208 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 92710: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2009, edited by Jocelyn Sessa

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
 Neogastropoda - Harpidae
"Harpa rosea" = Harpa doris
"Harpa rosea" = Harpa doris Röding 1798 snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murex saxatilis, "Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma
Murex saxatilis murex snail
"Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
"Conus testudinarius" = Conus (Chelyconus) testudinarius Martini 1773 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus verrucosa venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Acanthocardia tuberculata" = Cardium tuberculatum, Cerastoderma edule
"Acanthocardia tuberculata" = Cardium tuberculatum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Linga columbella Lamarck 1818 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus gaederopus Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral