Where: Italy (45.1° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 7.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Montaldo Member (Sant'Agata Fossili Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Later based on the abundant and well-preserved foraminifers (d’Onofrio et al. 1975), and on the basis of pteropods (Pavia & Robba 1979) the age of the sediments was referred as Early Messinian. However, a more recent revision of the pteropod fauna of Tetti Borelli indicates again a Tortonian age (Janssen 2012). In his monograph, Janssen (2012) also refers to renewed foraminifera analysis which confirms the Tortonian age. Ben Roest has collected fossils several times at an outcrop just outside of the classic Tetti Borelli locality, which was totally overgrown. In this 'new' outcrop the layers were sloping from down-left to up-right. There was a distinctive thin clay layer with hardly any fossils in it. This clay layer has served as reference for the samples taken. Material with no stratigraphic info.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by B. Roest in 1994

Collection methods: sieve

• Repository: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden

Primary reference: A. Dulai. 2019. New data on the Late Miocene brachiopod fauna of Tetti Borelli (Piedmont, N Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 125:125-145 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199891: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2019

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