Bologna: Monte San Pietro, loc. Pradalbino (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (44.5° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 11.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

• Ecological notes: circalittoral and upper bathyal zone
• 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 71157: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.04.2007, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• focus on Conoidea
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Pseudomelatomidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Ingaunoturricula accinellii, Gemmula rotata, "Gemmula (Unedogemmula) contigua" = Unedogemmula
"Gemmula (Unedogemmula) contigua" = Unedogemmula turrid
 Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Schilderia utriculata" = Schilderia utricolata
"Schilderia utriculata" = Schilderia utricolata Lamarck 1810 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
Hespererato cocconii Schilder 1933 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Ovulidae
Pseudosimnia passerinalis Lamarck 1810 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira helicina Brocchi 1814 moon snail
Euspira helicina helicina
Tectonatica tectula Sacco 1890 moon snail
Cochlis raropunctata Sasso 1827 moon snail
Cochlis raropunctata raropunctata