Firenze: Montaione, loc. "Villa Filicaia" (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (43.6° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Piacenzian inf.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal

• Ecological notes: infralittoral and upper circalittoral
• no information given

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. Scarponi and G. Della Bella. 2003. Molluschi marini del Plio-Pleistocene dell'Emilia-Romagna e della Toscana, Conoidea, Vol. 1 - Drilliidae e Turridae. Università di Bologna, Museo geologico Giovanni Capellini 1-89 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71154: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.04.2007

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Taxonomic list

• focus on Conoidea
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Horaiclavidae
Haedropleura "sp. 1" Monterosato 1883 snail
Haedropleura septangularis Montagu 1803 snail
 Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae