Where: Spain (36.7° N, 4.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Late Pleistocene raised beach terraces on Jurassic limestones and Permo-Triassic sandstones. THICKNESS: 30 cm, on raised beach 0.9-1.2 m above sea level. AGE: Late Pleistocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Vera-Peláez et al.
• COLLECTORS: Presumably the authors. REPOSITORY: Museo Municpal de Paleontogía, Malaga.
Primary reference: J. L. Vera-Peláez, M. C. Lozano-Francisco, J. Ramos Fernández and Y. M. Cortéz Sánchez. 2004. Molluscos del Tirreniense (Pleistoceno Superior) de la Playa la Araña-Cala de Moral (Málaga). Revista Española de Paleontología 19(2):251-259 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 76576: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) pilosa Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Acanthocardia paucicostata Sowerby 1834 cockle
Rudicardium tuberculatum cockle | |
Gastropoda | |
"Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma
"Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail | |