Siena: Siena, loc. Fornaci di Casanuova (Pliocene to of Italy)

Where: Italy (43.3° N, 11.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.4° N, 12.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal

• Ecological note: deep circalittoral and upper bathyal zone
• no information given

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71097: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.04.2007

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Taxonomic list

• focus on Conoidea
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae