Cava Rossi di Monte di Malo (Quaggiotto collection) (Eocene of Italy)

Where: Vicenza, Italy (45.7° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 10.4° E)

When: P8 - P9 foram zone, Calcari di nummulitici Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Late Ypresian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Nummulitic

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Istituto e Museo di Geologia dell'Universita, Padova (MGPD)

Primary reference: L. Dolin and J. M. Pacaud. 2009. Les Cypraeoidea et Velutinoidea (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) du Lutétien inférieur du Vicentin et du Véronais (nord-est de l’Italie). Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 28(2):277-314 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177707: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Semicypraea koninckii Rouault 1850 cowry