Did Strombus survive the Last Interglacial in the Western Mediterranean Sea?

  1. Caridad Zazo
  2. José Luis Goy
  3. Emiliano Aguirre
Zeitschrift:
Mediterránea: Serie de Estudios Geológicos

ISSN: 0212-4300

Datum der Publikation: 1984

Nummer: 3

Seiten: 131-137

Art: Artikel

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Zusammenfassung

The warm gastropod Strombus bubonius spread into the Mediterranean Sea during the last interglacial period. Its fossil ocurrence is normally used as a climatostratifraphic indicator of the Tyrrhenian transgression and linked to high sea levels of this episode. However, a sequence of four successive and discordant stratigraphic units containing S. bubonius is observed in the Rambla Amoladeras-Rambla Sepultura compisite section, east of Almería, on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The youngest unit has been dated between 39.000 and 34.000 y BP, suggesting therefore that S. bubonius survived the last interglacial in the western part of the Mediterranean basin. Reconsideration of the use and meaning of the term «Tyrrhenian» and of the current somewhat confusing terminology is thus required.

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