Where: Azores, Portugal (37.0° N, 25.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 25.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• unit B, MIS 5.5
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. P. Ávila, R. Amen, J. M. N. Azevedo, M. Cachão, and F. García-Talavera. 2002. Checklist of the Pleistocene marine molluscs of Prainha and Lagoinhas (Santa Maria Island, Azores). Açoreana 9:343-370 [J. Sessa/J. Sessa/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 128470: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 09.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
"Vitreolina philippi" = Balcis (Vitreolina)
"Vitreolina philippi" = Balcis (Vitreolina) snail | |
Fossarus ambiguus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
"Polynices lacteus" = Polinices
"Polynices lacteus" = Polinices moon snail | |
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail | |
Littorina striata, "Melarhaphe neritoides" = Littorina neritoides
Littorina striata periwinkle
"Melarhaphe neritoides" = Littorina neritoides Linnaeus 1758 periwinkle | |
Skeneopsis planorbis Fabricius 1780 periwinkle | |
Alvania tarsodes, Alvania sleursi, Alvania poucheti, Alvania mediolittoralis, Alvania angioyi, Alvania cancellata, Rissoa guernei, Cingula trifasciata, Manzonia unifasciata, Setia sp.
Alvania tarsodes snail
Alvania sleursi snail
Alvania poucheti snail
Alvania mediolittoralis snail
Alvania angioyi snail
Alvania cancellata da Costa 1778 snail
Rissoa guernei snail
Cingula trifasciata snail
Manzonia unifasciata Dautzenburg 1889 snail
Setia sp. Adams and Adams 1852 snail | |
Thylaeodus cf. rugulosus worm shell | |
"Phalium granulatum" = Semicassis granulata
"Phalium granulatum" = Semicassis granulata Born 1778 snail | |
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"Trivia pulex" = Trivia mediterranea
"Trivia pulex" = Trivia mediterranea Risso 1826 snail | |
Lamellaria latens Müller 1776 snail | |
Mitra cornea mitre shell | |
Cantharus variegatus Gray 1839 true whelk | |
Anachis avaroides snail | |
Morula nodulosa, "Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma
Morula nodulosa murex snail
"Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail subspecies "S. haemastoma haemastoma"
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Mitromorpha azorensis snail | |
Conus cf. miruchae cone shell
Conus cf. ermineus Born 1778 cone shell | |
Haedropleura sp. Monterosato 1883 snail | |
Caecum cf. armoricum de Folin 1869 snail | |
Odostomia bernardi snail
Odostomia cf. unidentata snail | |
Pedipes pedipes snail | |
Gibbula magus top snail
Gibbula delgadensis top snail | |
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Sinezona cingulata snail | |
Retusa truncatula Bruguiere 1792 snail | |
Patella ulyssiponensis Gmelin 1791 limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
Ensis minor Dall 1899 clam | |
"Tellina incarnata" = Clathrotellina carnicolor
"Tellina incarnata" = Clathrotellina carnicolor Hanley 1846 tellin clam | |
Ervilia castanea Montagu 1803 clam | |
Laevicardium crassum Gmelin 1791 cockle
Papillicardium papillosum Poli 1781 cockle | |
Lucinella divaricata Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Crassadoma pusio" = Talochlamys pusio, Nodipecten corallinoides
"Crassadoma pusio" = Talochlamys pusio Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Nodipecten corallinoides scallop | |
Neopycnodonte cf. cochlear Poli 1795 oyster | |
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona Poli 1795 clam |