Where: Siena, Italy (43.4° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 11.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Ascribed to the Pliocene the outcropping in this area ("sabbie stratificate con argille e ciottoli, di ambiente litorale o salmastro"). The mollusk content of these sandy sediments shows important analogies with deposits from northern Italy ascribed the Tabianian (lower Pliocene). Zanclean to lower Piacenzian according to Pedriali & Robba, 2009.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museo Geologico “G. Capellini” di Bologna, Museo di Zoologia de Bologna
Primary reference: D. Scarponi and G. Della Bella. 2003. Molluschi marini del Plio-Pleistocene dell'Emilia-Romagna e della Toscana, Conoidea, Vol. 1 - Drilliidae e Turridae. Università di Bologna, Museo geologico Giovanni Capellini 1-89 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71102: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.04.2007, edited by Pete Wagner and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Candinia pliocaenica n. sp.2
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Crassispira sejungenda snail
Crassispira seiuncta snail
Crassispira calurii snail
Crassispira geslini snail | |
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Crassopleura maravignae snail
Iredalea stoppanii snail | |
Comitas intermedia snail | |
Haedropleura secalina snail
Haedropleura septangularis Montagu 1803 snail | |
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