Unit 4, Sample C6 - Poggio al Lupo Quarry: Early Pliocene, Italy
collected by Benvenuti & Dominici

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Sabellida - Serpulidae
Ditrupa sp. Berkeley 1835
Present only as a juvenile
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Turbonilla sp. Risso 1826
30 specimens
Odostomia conoidea (Brocchi 1814)
13 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula sp. Deshayes 1838
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Scala sp. Humphrey
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Bittium reticulatum (Montagu 1803)
1 specimen
Bittium deshayesi Cerulli Irelli 1912
61 specimens
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Potamides tricinctus (Brocchi 1814)
Present only as a juvenile
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus 1758)
27 specimens
Gastropoda - Campanilidae
Cerithium vulgatum Bruguière 1789
Present only as a juvenile
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Cythara sp. Schumacher 1817
14 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Muricidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Present only as a juvenile
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
14 specimens
Gastropoda - Caecidae
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821
Present only as a juvenile
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Present only as a juvenile
49 specimens
Rissoa sp. Fréminville 1814
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834
Present only as a juvenile
Gastropoda - Triphoridae
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Phasianellidae
74 specimens
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Jujubinus sp. Monterosato 1884
Present only as a juvenile
Present only as a juvenile
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Cylichna cylindracea (Pennant 1777)
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Glans sp. Mühfeld 1811
Present only as a juvenile
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula gibba (Oliva 1792)
259 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia lupinus (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
3 specimens
Chamelea gallina (Linneus 1758)
143 specimens
Pitar rudis (Poli 1795)
173 specimens
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula subtruncata (da Costa 1778)
12 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
Present only as a juvenile
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Gastrana fragilis (Linnaeus 1758)
5 specimens
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Gastrochaenidae
Gastrochaena dubia (Pennant 1777)
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Solenida - Solenidae
Solen marginatus Pulteney 1799
Present only as a juvenile
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis sp. Schumacher 1817
Present only as a juvenile
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
324 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
unclassified
10 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Present only as a juvenile
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca noae Linnaeus 1758
Present only as a juvenile
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Present only as a juvenile
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Present only as a juvenile
Present only as a juvenile
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 43.7° North, 10.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.7° North, 11.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Early Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the upper part of the Pliocene sedimentary tectonic cycles in Arno Valley basin, which . THICKNESS: From bed within section of about 35 m thickness. AGE: Early Pliocene, on the basis of lithostratigraphic correlation, which ties this section into the Globorotalia crassaformis biozone, immediately preceding the middle Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unit 4, towards the top of the section, collected in the second shell accumulation of unit 4.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,shelly/skeletal,gray,yellow unlithified silty,carbonaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Grey silty fine sands, yellow in places, bioturbated, and abundant wood gfragments, with shell accumulations. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens and outcrop photos.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Inner shelf and estuarine environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:1.000
Collection size:1258 specimens
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collectors:Benvenuti & Dominici
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Presumably M. Benvenuti and S. Dominici. REPOSITORY: Presumably, Dipartmento di Scienze della Terra, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with taxa identified to species resolution.
Metadata
Database number:78338
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-03 16:37:59 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-03 16:37:59
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
26370. M. Benvenuti and S. Dominici. 1992. Facies analysis, paleoecology and sequence stratigraphy in a Pliocene siliciclastic succession, Sanb Miniato (Pisa, Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 31(2):241-259 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]