Case Picconetto palaeosol CB (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Abruzzo, Italy (42.3° N, 13.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• several beds below palaeosol CA, which is immediately below a tephra with a fission track on apatite date of 0.48 +/- 0.04 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; paleosol/pedogenic, silty claystone

• "alluvial fan deposits"
• "silty clay palaeosols"

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Marcolini, G. Bigazzi, F. P. Bonnadonna, E. Centamore, R. Cioni and G. Zanchetta. 2003. Tephrochronology and tephrostratigraphy of two Pleistocene continental fossiliferous successions from central Italy. Journal of Quaternary Science 18(6):545-556 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68337: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Diplommatinidae
Cochlostoma sp.
Cochlostoma sp. Jan 1830 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Pomatiidae
Pomatias elegans
Pomatias elegans periwinkle
 Pulmonata - Discidae
Discus rotundatus
 Stylommatophora - Helicodontidae
Helicodonta obvoluta
 Stylommatophora - Vertiginidae
Vertigo sp.
Vertigo sp. Muller 1774 slug
 Stylommatophora - Valloniidae
Vallonia pulchella
 Stylommatophora - Clausiliidae
Clausiliidae indet.
Clausiliidae indet. Gray 1855 slug
 Stylommatophora - Pristilomatidae
Vitrea subrimata
 Stylommatophora - Oxychilidae
Oxychilus sp.
Oxychilus sp. Fitzinger 1833 slug
 Stylommatophora - Milacidae
Milax sp.
Milax sp. Gray 1855 slug
 Stylommatophora - Limacidae
Limax sp.
Limax sp. Linnaeus 1758 slug
 Heterostropha - Carychiidae
Carychium tridentatum