Messina (Pliocene) (Pliocene to of Italy)

Where: Italy (38.2° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian to Piacenzian (3.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• Only "Pliocene" given but most likely Piacenzian or Gelasian in age (Sphenarina not found in younger Pleistocene deposits according to later papers).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, yellow marl

• Bathyal locality
• Lithified based on sediment characteristics at Milazzo Peninsula, and based on fossil preservation.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187479: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Frieleiidae
Sphenarina sicula
Sphenarina sicula Davidson 1870
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Aphelesia bipartita
Aphelesia bipartita Brocchi 1814