Also known as Venus-Conus community sample 11
Where: Pordenone, Italy (46.2° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 12.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: San Martino Calcarenite Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• Miocene Torento-Meduna sequence unconformably overlies the Eocene Clauzetto Flysch (Flysch di Clauzetto) and is composed of Preplans Sandstone, Zouf marl, Rugo Mizza Sandstone, San Martino Calcarenite, Torrente Meduna Siltstone, Maraldi Sandstone, Bier Puddingstone, and Montello Conglomerate. Thickness of the San Martino Calcarenite is approximately 170 m. Sample 11 is from the uppermost part of the San Martino Calcarenite.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; medium-grained, coarse, micaceous, brown, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• Based on single bulk samples, about 30 cubic centimetres each. Grain size data also provided.
Primary reference: M.P. Bernasconi and E. Robba. 1993. Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 100:267-290 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37372: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia longa clam | |
Cuspidaria sp. Dall 1886 clam | |
Paphia taurellipicta venus clam | |
"Psammobia affinis" = Gari (Psammobia)
"Psammobia affinis" = Gari (Psammobia) clam | |
Megaxinus ellipticus Borson 1825 clam
Myrtea spinifera Montagu 1803 clam
"Lucinoma borealis" = Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Glans intermedia Brocchi 1814 clam | |
Lentipecten denudatum scallop | |
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii Lamarck 1805 clam Subspecies: Anadara diluvii pertransversa
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Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium interruptum" = Antalis interruptum
"Dentalium interruptum" = Antalis interruptum Schröter 1854 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Ficus geometra fig shell | |
"Hinia cf. cocconii" = Nassarius (Hinia)
"Hinia cf. cocconii" = Nassarius (Hinia) snail | |
Turritella spirata turret shell |