Agadir, carriere de la jetee (Pleistocene of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.4° N, 9.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 9.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

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 127618: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 19.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiola lulat" = Modiolus
"Modiola lulat" = Modiolus mussel
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Lutraria lutraria Linnaeus 1767 clam