Where: Siena, Italy (43.3° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 11.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• The sedimentary series includes yellow sandy facies from the Lower-Middle Pliocene (Carta Geol. d’Italia, IGM, foglio 121, Montepulciano; 1:100000, Ist. Poligrafico di Stato, Ercolano, NA, 1960). Therefore, the specimen has been ascribed generically to the Pliocene.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Gruppo Paleontologico "C. De Giuli" (GPDG)

Primary reference: A. De Angeli, A. Garassino, and G. Pasini. 2009. New reports of anomurans and brachyurans from the Cenozoic of Tuscany (Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 150(2):163-196 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221596: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2021

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