Poggio alla Staffa, near Pietrafitta (Colle di Val d'Elsa): Zanclean - Piacenzian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Juliidae
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Candinia pliocaenica n. sp.
Le Renard et al. 1996
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Le Renard et al. 1996 | 7 specimens | |||||
Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Crepidula gibbosa
Defrance 1818
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Brunetti and Vecchi 2015 | 5 specimens | |||||
Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Persististrombus coronatus
(Defrance 1827)
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Brunetti and Vecchi 2015 | 6 specimens | |||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Clavatulidae
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Turricula coquandi
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2 specimens | ||||||
Clavatula ruida
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15 specimens | ||||||
Clavatula (Trachelochetus) romana
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60 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Horaiclavidae
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Haedropleura secalina
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35 specimens | ||||||
Haedropleura septangularis
(Montagu 1803)
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1 specimen | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Drilliidae
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Crassopleura maravignae
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4 specimens | ||||||
Iredalea stoppanii
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2 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Pseudomelatomidae
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Comitas intermedia
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15 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Triviidae
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Niveria dorsolaevigata
(Cocconi 1873)
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Brunetti and Vecchi 2015 | 1 specimen | |||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Tectonatica tectula
(Sacco 1890)
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Brunetti and Vecchi 2015 | 13 specimens | |||||
Payraudeautia intricata
(Donovan 1804)
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Brunetti and Vecchi 2015 | 6 specimens | |||||
Gastropoda
- Pseudomelaniidae
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Crassispira calurii
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13 specimens | ||||||
Crassispira geslini
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20 specimens | ||||||
Crassispira seiuncta
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5 specimens | ||||||
Crassispira sejungenda
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11 specimens | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Italy | State/province: | Siena |
Coordinates: | 43.4° North, 11.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 11.0° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Zanclean - Piacenzian | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 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. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal sandstone |
Lithology description: no information given | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Geology comments: Ecological note: infra- and circalittoral |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Repository: Museo Geologico “G. Capellini” di Bologna, Museo di Zoologia de Bologna |
Metadata
Database number: | 71102 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Aberhan, M. Clapham, P. Wagner | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg, M. Clapham, P. Wagner |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2007-04-18 10:25:32 | Last modified: | 2019-10-04 12:55:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-04-18 10:25:32 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
23826. | 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] |
Secondary references:
59160 | M. M. Brunetti and G. Vecchi. 2015. La Malacofauna Plio-Pleistocenica del Torrente Stirone Parte IX. Strombidae, Aporrhaiidae, Calyptreidae, Capulidae, Xenophoridae, Vermetidae, Cypraeidae, Eocypraeidae, Triviidae, Eratoidae, Ovulidae, Naticidae. Parva Naturalia 11:61-147 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
32478 | J. Le Renard, B. Sabelli, and M. Taviani. 1996. On Candinia (Sacoglossa: Juliidae), a new fossil genus of bivalved Gastropods. Journal of Paleontology 70(2):230-235 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |