BRS5 (Brisighella fissures) (Miocene of Italy)

Where: Ravenna, Italy (44.2° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 11.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• "Late Turolian, MN 13". Unclear (given old paper) if this is now classified as Messinian given where MN 13 sits in today's classifications.

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. Kotsakis. 1989. Late Turolian amphibians and reptiles from Brisighella (Northern Italy): preliminary report. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 28(2-3):277-280 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182097: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nicole Ochsenknecht on 10.10.2016, edited by Terri Cleary

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog
Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
 Squamata - Lacertidae
sensu lato Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates
 Squamata - Anguidae
"Ophisaurus cf. pannonicus" = Pseudopus pannonicus
"Ophisaurus cf. pannonicus" = Pseudopus pannonicus Kormos 1911 legless lizard