Where: Italy (38.3° N, 15.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 15.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• 11.5 m above sea level. Said to be late Pliocene (but before reassignment of Gelasian to the Pleistocene). Gaetani & Sacca identify foraminifera of zone MPL 6, consistent with later workers who assign the basal marl unit to the Gelasian (or Piacenzian-Gelasian) MPL 5 and 6 (Borghi et al., 2014).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, yellow marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Istituto di Geologie e di Paleontologia dell'Universita di Messina
Primary reference: M. Gaetani and D. Sacca. 1984. Brachiopodi batiali nel Pliocene e Pleistocene di Silicia e Calabria. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 90:407-458 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187494: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Macandrevia cranium Muller 1776 | |
Dallina septigera Loven 1846 | |
Fallax septatus Philippi 1844 | |
Ceramisia meneghiniana Seguenza 1865 | |
Gryphus sphenoideus Philippi 1844 |