Guistrigona (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Siena, Italy (43.3° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 11.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MPL4b/MPL5a other zone, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Early Piacenzian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; mudstone

• Ecological note: infra-, circalittoral and upper bathyal zone
• shelf mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Fehse and B. Landau. 2001. Contributions to eratoid systematics Mollusca, Gastropoda , 2. Late Miocene Eratoidae from Sceaux d' Anjou Loire Basin, France , with descriptions of new taxa. Cainozoic Research 1(1-2):91-110 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178267: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.04.2016, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

• focus on Conoidea
unclassified
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Mammalia
 Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Mesoplodon sp.2 Gervais 1850 beaked whale
WSi5-1
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
"Erato pernana" = Erato (Eratopsis) pernana3 Sacco 1894 snail
Hespererato cocconii3 Schilder 1933 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
Erato pieris3 De Stefani and Pantanelli 1879 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais pespelecani1 Linnaeus 1758 snail
Aporrhais pespelecani crenatulina