Where: Udine, Italy (46.0° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 11.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Large conglomeratic bed. The foraminifers, belonging to Nummulites, Discocyclina, Assilina, Alveolina, Acarina, and Morozovella allowed assignment of this faunal assemblage to early Lutetian (middle Eocene).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Friuliano di Storia Naturale di Udine (MFSN)

Primary reference: A. De Angeli and A. Garassino. 2006. New reports of decapod crustaceans from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (NE Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 147(2):267-294 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127495: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 16.05.2012

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