Where: Morocco (30.4° N, 9.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• 30 m, above current sea level

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•Stearns and Thurber (1965) dated molluscs from Agadir to be 75,000 +-5 and 82,000 +-5. Note that U/Th ages from molluscs are controversial. Occhietti et al (2002; Quaternaire) indicate that a 20+m paleoshoreline previously described by Lecointre (1952) appears to be Ouljian.

• 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 127592: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 18.05.2012

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