Alcarabanares, Grand Canary Island (Pleistocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (28.1° N, 15.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 15.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Interpreted by Lecointre et al (1967) as Tyrrhenian I=Ouljian (Late Pleistocene). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From silty sand.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, silty sandstone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Reddish-brown silty sand. LITHIFICATION: No stated, but figured specimens appear to come from unlithified sediments.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Lecointre & Richards in 1962-1963; reposited in the MNHN

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: G. Lecointre and H.G. Richards, 1962-1963. REPOSITORY: Laboratoire de Malacologie, Paris Museum (MNHN).

Primary reference: G. Lecointre, K. J. Tinkler, and H. G. Richards. 1967. The marine Quaternary of the Canary Islands. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 119(8):325-344 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 127360: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods and bivalves. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, but with species-resolution identifications.

•Meco et al (2002) are critical of the age assignment and taxonomic identifications of Lecointre et al, and suggest that these collections may be contaminated by archeological specimens: "possible errors caused by the mingling of fossils with archaeological remains consumer at the site, or perhaps by intricate synonyms that would be difficult to follow up, or because of incorrect taxonomical determinations, or inaccurate localities in museum collections."

Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Monodonta tamsi top snail
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora gibberula Lamarck 1822 snail
 Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis tuberculata Linnaeus 1758 abalone
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Bittium sp. Gray 1847 cerith snail
Bittium lacteum cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
"Cerithium (Vulgocerithium) sp." = Thericium
"Cerithium (Vulgocerithium) sp." = Thericium Monterosato 1809 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra zerbina mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella glabella Linnaeus 1758 margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Purpura (Thais) haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma
"Purpura (Thais) haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea cf. lurida" = Luria lurida, "Cypraea spurca" = Erosaria spurca
"Cypraea cf. lurida" = Luria lurida Linnaeus 1758 cowry
"Cypraea spurca" = Erosaria spurca Linnaeus 1758 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Polinices lacteus, "Natica catena" = Euspira catena
Polinices lacteus Guilding 1834 moon snail
"Natica catena" = Euspira catena da Costa 1778 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Rissoa sp. Fréminville 1814 snail
Alvania (Acinopsis) sp. Risso 1826 snail
Folinia (Manzonia) sp. Crosse 1868 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Barleeiidae
Barleeia sp. Clark 1853 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetus adansoni worm shell
misspelling as "adonsoni"
 Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Triphoridae
Triphora perversa Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Caecidae
Caecum sp. Fleming 1813 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella lowei, "Patella caerula" = Patella caerulea
"Patella caerula" = Patella caerulea Linnaeus 1758 limpet
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Smaragdia viridis Linnaeus 1758 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus verrucosus venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam
Brachydontes
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Brachydontes sp. Swainson 1840