Where: Italy (44.8° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 10.4° E)

When: Lugagnano Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• VERBATIM STRATIGRAPHY: A hydrocarbon seep complex of late Pliocene age has been recently described in detail from strata of the Argille Azzurre (Lugagnano Formation). Discrete hydrocarbon-imprinted carbonate bodies of different thick- ness and degree of lithification and host muddy sediment punctuate the Stirone section at the Zanclean/Piacenzian boundary.

Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• REPOSITORY: Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini, University of Bologna, Italy, Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, Faenza, Italy, Zoological Museum, University of Bologna, Italy. COLLECTOR: The material was collected by the authors and co-workers over many years since 1997.

Primary reference: S. Kiel and M. Taviana. 2018. Chemosymbiotic bivalves from the late Pliocene Stirone River hydrocarbon seep complex in northern Italy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194847: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.07.2018

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