Near Church of St. Maria de Andria (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Apulia, Italy (41.2° N, 16.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcarenite di Gravina Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone

• "tuffaceous concretions" in Colonna - a calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Massimo Caldera, Oronzo Simone in 1993, 1998; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: D. E. Lee and C. H. C. Brunton. 1998. Terebratula Müller, 1776 (Brachiopoda): proposed designation of Anomia terebratula Linnaeus, 1758 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55(4):220-223 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135548: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula terebratula Linnaeus 1758
Neotype material