Altavilla Milicia (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (38.0° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 13.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Micropalaeontological analysis of the 'Altavilla sands' informal lithostratigraphic unit in the Milicia River valley refers to the Piacenzian stage (MPl5 planktic foraminifer biozone and MNN16b-17 nannoplankton biozone)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; unlithified sandstone

• Based on the diverse Ostracoda fauna, D'Arpa and Ruggieri (2004) reconstructed a shallow marine environment characterised by seagrass meadows
• Gravel, sand and calcarenite layers

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Dulai in 2018

• Repository: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (HNHM)

Primary reference: A. Dulai. 2022. Two new Eucalathis (Brachiopoda, Chlidonophoridae) species from the Pliocene of Italy and history of the genus in the Mediterranean. Historical Biology 36:193-202 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232910: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.01.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Kraussinidae
Megerlia eusticta
Megerlia eusticta Philippi 1836
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula terebratula
 Terebratulida - Chlidonophoridae
Eucalathis dorae n. sp.
Eucalathis dorae n. sp. Dulai 2022
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Aphelesia bipartita
Aphelesia bipartita Brocchi 1814