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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Cymatium parthenopaeum triton shell
Charonia nodifera triton | |
Strombus bubonius conch | |
"Harpa rosea" = Harpa doris
"Harpa rosea" = Harpa doris Röding 1798 snail | |
Murex saxatilis, "Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma
Murex saxatilis murex snail
"Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail | |
Cantharus viverratus true whelk | |
Conus papilionaceus, "Conus testudinarius" = Conus (Chelyconus) testudinarius
Conus papilionaceus cone shell
"Conus testudinarius" = Conus (Chelyconus) testudinarius Martini 1773 cone shell | |
Patella ferruginea limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys corallinoides scallop
Spondylus gaederopus Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Linga columbella Lamarck 1818 clam | |
Venus verrucosa venus clam | |
"Acanthocardia tuberculata" = Cardium tuberculatum, Cerastoderma edule
"Acanthocardia tuberculata" = Cardium tuberculatum Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Anthozoa | |
Siderastrea radians Pallas 1766 stony coral |