Cava Rossi di Monte di Malo (Nummulites nitidus zone) (Eocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.7° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nummulites nitidus foram zone, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, volcaniclastic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Civico "G. Zannato" di Montecchio Maggiore (MCZ), Centro Studi del Priaboniano di Priabona (CSP)

Primary reference: C. Beschin, A. De Angeli, and A. Checchi. 2007. Crostacei dell'Eocene inferiore de Cava "Rossi" di Monte de Malo (Vicenza - Italia Settentrionale). Studi e Ricerche - Associazione Amici del Museo - Museo Civico "G. Zannato" 14:11-24 [M. Clapham/R. Valdez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135461: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 26.10.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Neocallichirus sp. Sakai 1988 decapod
 Decapoda -
Xanthoidea "indet. 1" MacLeay 1838 crab
Xanthoidea "indet. 2" MacLeay 1838 crab
 Decapoda - Zanthopsidae
Neozanthopsis bruckmanni von Meyer 1862 crab
 Decapoda - Carpiliidae
Palaeocarpilius simplex Stoliczka 1871 crab
 Decapoda - Matutidae
Pseudohepatiscus silvanoi De Angeli and Beschin 1999 crab
 Decapoda - Dairidae
Daira salebrosa Beschin et al. 2002 crab
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Lophoranina marestiana König 1825 crab
Lianira isidoroi Beschin et al. 2007 crab
Notopoides exiguus Beschin et al. 1988 crab