PBDB Collection

Torino Hill, Moncucco Torinese, "facies à Congeria", M7+60 (Miocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.1° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: facies à Congeria Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Late Messinian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified marl

• 6.5 m of beige to green-blue clayey marls with calcareous paleosol interbeds. This unit contains shells of dreissenid and limnocardiid bivalves along with melanopsid and hydrobiid gastropods and is an equivalent of the Lago-Mare biofacies of the Mediterranean area

• deeper (maybe slope?) environment with abundant terrigenous influence

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Harzhauser, T. A. Neubauer, E. Georgopoulou, D. Esu, C. D’Amico, G. Pavia, P. Giuntelli, G. Carnevale, and H. Nordsieck. 2015. Late Messinian continental and Lago-Mare gastropods from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 54(1):1-53 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172924: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 01.09.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
Neritoidea - Neritidae	Theodoxus doderleini, Theodoxus mutinensis Theodoxus doderleini d'Ancona 1869 snail Theodoxus mutinensis d'Ancona 1869 snail
Stylommatophora - Gastrodontidae	Janulus cf. spadinii Janulus cf. spadinii Manganelli et al. 2011 slug Janulus cf. spadinii Manganelli
Stylommatophora - Parmacellidae	Parmacella sp. Parmacella sp. Cuvier 1804 slug
Stylommatophora - Milacidae	Milacidae indet. Milacidae indet. Ellis 1926 slug
Stylommatophora - Agriolimacidae	Agriolimacidae indet. Agriolimacidae indet. Wagner 1935 slug
Stylommatophora - Limacidae	? Limax fossilis ? Limax fossilis Sacco 1896 slug
Stylommatophora - Vertiginidae	Negulopsis suturalis Negulopsis suturalis slug
Stylommatophora - Helicodiscidae	Lucilla miocaenica, Helicodiscus roemeri Lucilla miocaenica Harzhauser et al. 2015 slug Helicodiscus roemeri Andreae 1902 slug
Stylommatophora - Clausiliidae	Cochlodina (Miophaedusa) sp., Clausilia (Clausilia) cf. baudoni, Truciella ballesioi, Nordsieckia pontica, ? Serrulella sp. Cochlodina (Miophaedusa) sp. Nordsieck 1972 slug Clausilia (Clausilia) cf. baudoni Michaud 1862 slug Truciella ballesioi Truc 1972 slug Nordsieckia pontica Lueger 1981 slug ? Serrulella sp. Nordsieck 1978 slug
Stylommatophora - Hygromiidae	Helicopsis piedmontanica Helicopsis piedmontanica Harzhauser et al. 2015 slug listed as "? Helicopsis piedmontanica" in this paper because authors are not sure if it belongs to Helicopsis. They're still naming a new spp though so following convention I've removed the "?" for entry here since this assignment stands until another paper says otherwise.
Stylommatophora - Ferussaciidae	Cecilioides acicula Cecilioides acicula Müller 1774 slug
Architaenioglossa - Craspedopomatidae	Craspedopoma conoidale Craspedopoma conoidale Michaud 1855 snail
Architaenioglossa - Diplommatinidae	Cochlostoma esuanum Cochlostoma esuanum Manganelli and Giusti 1997 snail
Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae	Saccoia globosa, Saccoia oryza Saccoia globosa Harzhauser et al. 2015 snail Saccoia oryza Brusina 1893 snail
Cerithioidea - Thiaridae	Melanoides curvicosta Melanoides curvicosta Deshayes 1835 snail
Cerithioidea - Melanopsidae	Melanopsis narzolina Melanopsis narzolina Archiac 1846 snail