Also known as Venus-Conus community sample 18
Where: Pordenone, Italy (46.2° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 12.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maraldi Sandstone Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Miocene Torento-Meduna sequence unconformably overlies the Eocene Clauzetto Flysch (Flysch di Clauzetto) and is composed of Preplans Sandstone, Zouf marl, Rugo Mizza Sandstone, San Martino Calcarenite, Torrente Meduna Siltstone, Maraldi Sandstone, Bier Puddingstone, and Montello Conglomerate. Thickness of the Maraldi Sandstone is approximately 220 m. Sample 18 is from the uppermost part of the Maraldi Sandstone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: prodelta; fine, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• Based on single bulk samples, about 30 cubic centimetres each. Grain size data also provided.
Primary reference: M.P. Bernasconi and E. Robba. 1993. Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 100:267-290 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37377: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cardium kunstleri cockle | |
"Thracia pubescens" = Thracia (Thracia) pubescens
"Thracia pubescens" = Thracia (Thracia) pubescens Pulteney 1799 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Tudicula rusticula" = Tudicla
"Tudicula rusticula" = Tudicla snail | |
Protoma rotifera Deshayes 1832 turret shell | |
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum Bruguière 1789 snail | |
"Semicassis miolaevigata" = Phalium (Semicassis) miolaevigata
"Semicassis miolaevigata" = Phalium (Semicassis) miolaevigata Sacco 1890 snail | |
Cancellaria dertonensis snail | |
Conus berghausi cone shell
Conus canaliculatus cone shell
Conus pyruloides cone shell
"Conus antiquus" = Lithoconus antiquus Lamarck 1810 cone shell | |
"Subula modesta" = Terebra modesta
"Subula modesta" = Terebra modesta Defrance 1829 auger snail | |
Perrona jouanneti turrid | |
Clavatula agassizi snail
Clavatula gradata snail | |
Nassarius basteroti true whelk | |
Neverita josephinia Risso 1826 moon snail
Polinices proredempta moon snail |