Santa Maria Island, Praia B (Pleistocene of Portugal)

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

• poorly consolidated bioclastic white sands (B1) which thickness reaches 1.3 m

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
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Gibbula magus top snail
 Lepetellida - Scissurellidae
 Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis tuberculata Linnaeus 1758 abalone
subspecies "H. tuberculata coccinea"
 Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae
"Vitreolina philippi" = Balcis (Vitreolina)
"Vitreolina philippi" = Balcis (Vitreolina) snail
 Cerithioidea - Planaxidae
Fossarus ambiguus Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra cornea mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus variegatus Gray 1839 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus cf. ermineus Born 1778 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Horaiclavidae
Haedropleura sp. Monterosato 1883 snail
 Neogastropoda - Mitromorphidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma, Morula nodulosa
"Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail
subspecies "S. haemastoma haemastoma"
Morula nodulosa murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
"Phalium granulatum" = Semicassis granulata
"Phalium granulatum" = Semicassis granulata Born 1778 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Charonia lampas Linnaeus 1758 triton
subspecies "C. lampas lampas"
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
"Trivia pulex" = Trivia mediterranea
"Trivia pulex" = Trivia mediterranea Risso 1826 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Velutinidae
Lamellaria latens Müller 1776 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
Littorina striata, "Melarhaphe neritoides" = Littorina neritoides
"Melarhaphe neritoides" = Littorina neritoides Linnaeus 1758 periwinkle
 Sorbeoconcha - Skeneopsidae
Skeneopsis planorbis Fabricius 1780 periwinkle
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Polynices lacteus" = Polinices
"Polynices lacteus" = Polinices moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Alvania cancellata da Costa 1778 snail
Manzonia unifasciata Dautzenburg 1889 snail
Setia sp. Adams and Adams 1852 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Caecidae
Caecum cf. armoricum de Folin 1869 snail
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
 Heterostropha - Ellobiidae
 Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
Retusa truncatula Bruguiere 1792 snail
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella ulyssiponensis Gmelin 1791 limpet
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona Poli 1795 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Crassadoma pusio" = Talochlamys pusio Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinella divaricata Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Papillicardium papillosum Poli 1781 cockle
Laevicardium crassum Gmelin 1791 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Tellina incarnata" = Clathrotellina carnicolor
"Tellina incarnata" = Clathrotellina carnicolor Hanley 1846 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Ervilia castanea Montagu 1803 clam
 Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis minor Dall 1899 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam