Where: Granada, Spain (37.6° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 3.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Ruscinian (5.3 - 3.2 Ma)
• Middle Pliocene, MN15, late Ruscinian (3.5Ma ish). Same date as Huescar 3.
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: F. Robles. 1989. Moluscos continentales del Plio-Pleistoceno de la cuenca de Guadix-Baza. In A.T. Alberdi and F.P. Bonadonna (eds.), Geologia y Paleontologia de la cuenca de Guadix-Baza. Trabajos sobre el Neogeno Cuaternario, Museo National de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid 127-138 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35254: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 21.11.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Melanoides tuberculata Müller 1774 snail | |
Melanopsis cariosa snail | |
Theodoxus sp. Monfort 1810 snail |