Scontrone, near (Miocene of Italy)

Where: L'Aquila, Italy (41.8° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 13.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Scontrone Member (Lithothamnion Limestone Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• lower Tortonian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow limestone

• The vertebrate-bearing levels are represented by yellowish stratified limestone breccias. The breccia elements are millimetric to decimetric and yellowish; they float in a dark grey micritic matrix. The bones occur in the micritic mass and are never included in the breccia elements. The strata are some 10 cms thick, strike 340~and dip ESE about 25~ They overlie greyish to light brown stratified calcarenites and are overlain by a 10 to 15 cms thick layer of greyish limestones with ostreids and cerithids, which form the top of the local sequence.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Savorelli, F. Masini, P. P. A. Mazza, M. A. Rossi, and S. Agostini. 2017. New species of Deinogalerix (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) from the late Miocene of Scontrone (Abruzzo, central Italy). Palaeontologia Electronica 20(1):16A-1-26 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 188761: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Jeankyong So on 17.09.2017, edited by Mark Uhen and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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? Amphistegina sp.2, Artiodactyla indet.2
Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Ammonia sp.2
Ammonia sp.2 Bruennich 1772
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
Bolivina sp.2
Bolivina sp.2 d'Orbigny 1839
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
Uvigerina sp.2
Uvigerina sp.2 d'Orbigny 1826
 Globigerinoidea - Globorotaliidae
"Globorotalia scitula" = Globorotalia (Hirsutella) scitula2
"Globorotalia scitula" = Globorotalia (Hirsutella) scitula2 Brady 1882
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globigerinoides sp.2, Globigerina sp.2, Globoquadrina sp.2
Globigerinoides sp.2 Cushman 1927
Globigerina sp.2 d'Orbigny 1826
Globoquadrina sp.2 Finlay 1947
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus sp.2
Crocodylus sp.2 Laurenti 1768 crocodile
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet.1
Testudinidae indet.1 Batsch 1788 turtle
SCT 118 (a partial posterior portion of a plastron partly preserved on a slab); SCT 127b–d (three plastral fragments); SCT 216a (a large shell fragment/unidentified laminar bone); SCT 237 (a ?pectoral girdle on a slab); SCT 163 (a pectoral girdle); SCT 203 (a fragment of a ?pubis); SCT 308 (a humerus); SCT 287 (a fragment of an ilium); SCT 236 (a fragment of a ?humerus); SCT 64 (a caudal vertebra).
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys sp.1
Mauremys sp.1 Gray 1870 pond turtle
SCT 371a (a neural), SCT 371b (two costals and nine shell fragments); SCT 26a (a costal); SCT 26b (a costal); SCT 127a (a fragmentary costal); SCT 43 (five costal fragments and a bridge peripheral); SCT 256 (a peripheral); SCT 285 (a peripheral); SCT 258 (a peripheral); SCT 421 (a peripheral); SCT 416 (a peripheral); SCT 463 (a peripheral); SCT 218 (three peripherals); SCT 422 (a bridge peripheral); SCT 423 (fragment of a bridge peripheral); SCT 140a (a fragmentary ?suprapygal); SCT 233 (right epiplastron); SCT 214b (a left epiplastron); SCT 251 (a right epiplastron); SCT 334 (a right epiplastron fragment); SCT 253 (a fragmentary entoplastron); SCT 301 (a right hyoplastron); SCT 535 (a right hyoplastron on a slab); SCT 249 (a left hyoplastron); SCT 248 (a fragment of hyoplastron or hypoplastron); SCT 339 (a fragment of hyoplastron or hypoplastron); SCT 396 (a fragment of hyoplastron or hypoplastron); SCT 270 (a right hypoplastron); SCT 310 (a partial left hypoplastron); SCT 358 (a fragmentary hyo-hypoplastron); SCT 349 (a right xiphiplastron on a slab); SCT 239 (a left xiphiplastron); SCT 259 (several shell fragments on matrix); SCT 119 (an ilium).
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Lutrini indet.2
Lutrini indet.2 Gray 1865 otter
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Deinogalerix samniticus n. sp.
Deinogalerix samniticus n. sp. Savorelli et al. 2017 hedgehog
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.2
Gastropoda indet.2 Cuvier 1795 snail
"trochid-like"
1Georgalis and Delfino 2021; 2Rustioni et al. 1992