Baldissero, Collines de Turin (Miocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.1° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 7.4° E)

When: N8 foram zone, Baldissero Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• From Jourdan et al. 2012 J. Geology. Helvétien in old literature.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. M. Glibert. 1962. Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Cyclophoridae à Stilifetidae. Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Memoire, 10th sériés 69:1-304 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178322: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Cernina (Cernina) compressa" = Globularia compressa
"Cernina (Cernina) compressa" = Globularia compressa Basterot 1825 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Hipponicidae
"Hipponix (Sabia) sulcatus" = Sabia
"Hipponix (Sabia) sulcatus" = Sabia hoof shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Mandolina pergibba Sacco 1894 cowry
Mandolina rhomboidalis pergibba
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
"Aspa marginaux" = Gyrineum (Aspa)
"Aspa marginaux" = Gyrineum (Aspa) triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Neverita (Neverita) josephinia Risso 1826 moon snail
Neverita (Neverita) josephinia subglaucinoides
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae