Racine (Pleistocene of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (33.6° N, 7.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 7.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Lecointre. 1952. Recherches sur le Neogene et le Quaternaire marins de la cote Atlantique du Maroc. Publications du Service geologique du Maroc 99(1,2):1-174 [J. Sessa/J. Sessa/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127640: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 19.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Purpura haemastoma murex snail
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella intermedia Murray 1857 limpet
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Myidae
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam