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.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by B. Roest in 1995
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 199893: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Cryptopora lovisati Dreger 1911 | |
Lacazella mediterranea Risso 1826 | |
Terebratulina retusa Linnaeus 1758 | |
Eucalathis giulioi n. sp.
Eucalathis giulioi n. sp. Dulai 2019 | |
Borellithyris gaetanii Dulai 2019
Joania aff. falunica de Morgan 1915
Joania cordata Risso 1826
Argyrotheca sp. Dall 1900 | |
Megerlia truncata Linnaeus 1767 | |
Lingulata | |
? Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797 |