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

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