Where: Azores, Portugal (37.0° N, 25.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 25.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• unit B, MIS 5.5
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. P. Ávila, R. Amen, J. M. N. Azevedo, M. Cachão, and F. García-Talavera. 2002. Checklist of the Pleistocene marine molluscs of Prainha and Lagoinhas (Santa Maria Island, Azores). Açoreana 9:343-370 [J. Sessa/J. Sessa/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 128470: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 09.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Patella ulyssiponensis Gmelin 1791 limpet | |
Gibbula magus top snail
Gibbula delgadensis top snail | |
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Sinezona cingulata snail | |
"Vitreolina philippi" = Balcis (Vitreolina)
"Vitreolina philippi" = Balcis (Vitreolina) snail | |
Fossarus ambiguus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Alvania tarsodes, Alvania sleursi, Alvania poucheti, Alvania mediolittoralis, Alvania angioyi, Alvania cancellata, Rissoa guernei, Setia sp., Cingula trifasciata, Manzonia unifasciata
Alvania tarsodes snail
Alvania sleursi snail
Alvania poucheti snail
Alvania mediolittoralis snail
Alvania angioyi snail
Alvania cancellata da Costa 1778 snail
Rissoa guernei snail
Setia sp. Adams and Adams 1852 snail
Cingula trifasciata snail
Manzonia unifasciata Dautzenburg 1889 snail | |
Cerithiopsis sp. Hanley 1849 snail | |
Thylaeodus cf. rugulosus worm shell | |
"Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma, Morula nodulosa
"Stramonita haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail subspecies "S. haemastoma haemastoma"
Morula nodulosa murex snail | |
Mitra cornea mitre shell | |
Cantharus variegatus Gray 1839 true whelk | |
Anachis avaroides snail | |
Haedropleura sp. Monterosato 1883 snail | |
Mitromorpha azorensis snail | |
Conus cf. miruchae cone shell
Conus cf. ermineus Born 1778 cone shell | |
"Trivia pulex" = Trivia mediterranea
"Trivia pulex" = Trivia mediterranea Risso 1826 snail | |
Lamellaria latens Müller 1776 snail | |
"Phalium granulatum" = Semicassis granulata
"Phalium granulatum" = Semicassis granulata Born 1778 snail | |
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Caecum cf. armoricum de Folin 1869 snail | |
"Polynices lacteus" = Polinices
"Polynices lacteus" = Polinices moon snail | |
Littorina striata, "Melarhaphe neritoides" = Littorina neritoides
Littorina striata periwinkle
"Melarhaphe neritoides" = Littorina neritoides Linnaeus 1758 periwinkle | |
Skeneopsis planorbis Fabricius 1780 periwinkle | |
Retusa truncatula Bruguiere 1792 snail | |
Odostomia bernardi snail
Odostomia cf. unidentata snail | |
Pedipes pedipes snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Lucinella divaricata Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Ensis minor Dall 1899 clam | |
Laevicardium crassum Gmelin 1791 cockle
Papillicardium papillosum Poli 1781 cockle | |
Ervilia castanea Montagu 1803 clam | |
"Tellina incarnata" = Clathrotellina carnicolor
"Tellina incarnata" = Clathrotellina carnicolor Hanley 1846 tellin clam | |
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona Poli 1795 clam | |
Neopycnodonte cf. cochlear Poli 1795 oyster | |
"Crassadoma pusio" = Talochlamys pusio, Nodipecten corallinoides
"Crassadoma pusio" = Talochlamys pusio Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Nodipecten corallinoides scallop |