Where: Italy (38.2° N, 15.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Globorotalia truncatulinoides excelsa foram zone, Sicilian Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Sicilian, the uppermost substage of the Selinuntian (lower Pleistocene). (PJW).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Placella. 1978. Nuove osservazioni sulla corallofauna delle argille pleistoceniche di Archi (Reggio Calabria) [New observations of Pleistocene coral fauna from Archi (Calabria)]. Bollettino della Societa dei Naturalisti in Napoli 87:221-251 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71473: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.04.2007, edited by Mark Uhen and Pete Wagner

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