Where: Italy (37.9° N, 12.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 12.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• Found about 3-4 m above sea level. Faunas from the Pleistocene units of Favignana Island (Spatangus purpureus, Paracentrotus lividus, Terebratula scillae, and Echinocardium morteseni) established a Sicilian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Borghi

Primary reference: A. Garassino and A. De Angeli. 2004. Parthenope angulifrons Latreille, 1825, and Atelecyclus rotundatus (Olivi, 1782) from the Sicilian (upper Pleistocene) of Favignana Island (Egadi Islands, Sicily, S Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 145(1):19-28 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127166: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 28.04.2012

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