Livornesi Mountains, Rosignano unit assemblages, Tuscany (Miocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (43.5° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 10.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Early Messinian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone and marl

• biohermal limestone, marl and a calcarenite with molluscs and other macrofauna, bioclastic calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Dominici, M. Forli, C. Bogi, A. Guerrini, and M. Benvenuti. 2020. Paleobiology from Museum collections: comparing historical and novel data on Upper Miocene molluscs of the Livorno Hills. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 126(1):65-109 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207783: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.02.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Oxystele rotellaris Michelotti 1847 top snail
 Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Amalda glandiformis Lamarck 1810 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Streptochetus ornatus dOrbigny 1852 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Cochlis sp. Röding 1798 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara fichteli Deshayes 1850 ark
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Talochlamys multistriata Poli 1795 scallop
Pecten aduncus Eichwald 1830 scallop
Aequipecten malvinae Dubois de Montpereux 1831 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea gryphoides Schlotheim 1813 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Gibbomodiola adriatica Lamarck 1819 mussel
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
"Thracia pubescens" = Thracia (Thracia) pubescens
"Thracia pubescens" = Thracia (Thracia) pubescens Pulteney 1799 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pelecyora islandicoides Lamarck 1818 venus clam
Venerupis cf. basteroti Mayer 1857 venus clam
Paphia vetula Basterot 1825 venus clam
Clausinella fasciata da Costa 1778 venus clam
Dosinia exoleta Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
Venus cf. nux Gmelin 1791 venus clam
Circomphalus subplicatus dOrbigny 1852 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Lutraria oblonga Gmelin 1791 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Procardium cf. danubianum Mayer 1866 cockle
Acanthocardia echinata Linnaeus 1767 cockle
Papillicardium papillosum Poli 1781 cockle
Laevicardium oblongum Gmelin 1791 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Gastrana fragilis, "Peronaea planata" = Tellina planata
Gastrana fragilis Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
"Peronaea planata" = Tellina planata Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam