Campo de Dalias, Loma del Viento (Pleistocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (36.7° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 2.6° W)

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

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. Zazo, J. L. Goy, C. J. Dabrio, T. Bardaj, C. Hillaire-Marcel, B. Ghaleb, J.-A. Gonzalez-Delgado and V. Soler. 2001. Pleistocene raised marine terraces of the Spanish Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts: Records of coastal uplift, sea-level highstands and climate changes. Marine Geology 194(1-2):103-133 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176761: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 01.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma
"Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Cymatium dolarium triton shell
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella sp. Linnaeus 1758 limpet
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris glycymeris Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus gaederopus Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea edulis Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle