Where: Sardinia, Italy (39.6° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 2.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aquitanian to Aquitanian (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• The marine sedimentary sequence at Funtanazza, containing the echinoid assemblages studied here, is a ca. 80 m-thick siliciclastic succession (Fig. 2)." "The studied section belongs to Unit E of" Units A to E of Assorgia et al. (1992) and "and approximately corresponds to the section D-D’ described by Assorgia et al. (1992)." "Radiometric dating using the 87Sr/86Sr ratio provided an age between 22.3 ± 0.3 Ma and 20.3 ± 0.2 Ma (Aquitanian to Early Burdigalian) for the succession (Barbieri et al., 1997)."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; massive, bioturbated, fine-grained, medium sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Bulk collections

Primary reference: A. Mancosu and J. H. Nebelsick. 2016. Echinoid assemblages from the early Miocene of Funtanazza (Sardinia): A tool for reconstructing depositional environments along a shelf gradient. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 454:139-160 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187429: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 27.07.2017

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