Where: Italy (38.2° N, 15.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 15.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• Above a clear break in the section and characterized by synsedimentary slumping. Said to be late Pliocene (but before reassignment of Gelasian to the Pleistocene). Clayey sands and bioclastic calcarenites at the base. Di Stefano et al. (2007) discuss sections in the Rometta area, describing three unconformity-bound packages R1 Piacenzian, R2 latest Gelasian-Calabrian, and R3 late Calabrian-early Ionian). The description of the section agrees most with the R2 unit (containing slumps)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Istituto di Geologie e di Paleontologia dell'Universita di Messina

Primary reference: M. Gaetani and D. Sacca. 1984. Brachiopodi batiali nel Pliocene e Pleistocene di Silicia e Calabria. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 90:407-458 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187497: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)