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; mudstone
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 207784: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.02.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Fissidentalium inaequale Bronn 1831 tusk shell | |
Omniglypta jani Hoernes 1956 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia nitida Brocchi 1814 clam | |
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii Lamarck 1805 clam | |
Neopycnodonte navicularis Brocchi 1814 oyster | |
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba Oliva 1792 clam | |
Timoclea ovata Pennant 1777 venus clam
Venus nux Gmelin 1791 venus clam
Pitar rudis Poli 1795 venus clam | |
"Centrocardita aculeata" = Chama aculeata
"Centrocardita aculeata" = Chama aculeata Poli 1795 jewel box | |
Myrtina meneghinii De Stefani and Pantanelli 1878 clam
Myrtea spinifera Montagu 1803 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Hexaplex austriacus Tournouer 1875 murex snail | |
Aporrhais uttingeriana Risso 1826 snail | |
Epitonium sp. Bolten 1798 wentletrap | |
"Turritella tricarinata" = Turritella (Turritella) tricarinata
"Turritella tricarinata" = Turritella (Turritella) tricarinata Brocchi 1814 turret shell |