Cocconato (Asti) (Miocene of Italy)

Where: Piedmont, Italy (45.1° N, 8.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• From the chalky sulphur-bearing formation (Messinian, upper Miocene). The pelitic deposits in which the studied specimens were discovered are 8-10 m thick, as observed in the southern margin of the quarry.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

• Macrocrystalline chalk inside some blocks of more or less clayey chalky marls, grey or whitish-grey in colour, a few millimetres or a few centimetres thick.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Paleontologia Università di Torino (PU)

Primary reference: A. Garassino, A. De Angeli, L. M. Gallo and G. Pasini. 2004. Brachyuran and anomuran fauna from the Cenozoic of Piedmont (NW Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 145(2):251-281 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127167: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 28.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Dorippidae
Medorippe ampla n. sp.
Medorippe ampla n. sp. Garassino et al. 2004 crab
 Decapoda - Carcinidae
Liocarcinus cf. rakosensis
Liocarcinus cf. rakosensis Lorenthey 1929 crab
 Decapoda - Goneplacidae
Goneplax rhomboides
Goneplax rhomboides Linnaeus 1758 crab
 Decapoda -
Palaeomyra bispinosa
Palaeomyra bispinosa Milne-Edwards 1861 crab