Where: Italy (43.7° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 10.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the upper part of the Pliocene sedimentary tectonic cycles in Arno Valley basin, which . THICKNESS: From bed within section of about 35 m thickness. AGE: Early Pliocene, on the basis of lithostratigraphic correlation, which ties this section into the Globorotalia crassaformis biozone, immediately preceding the middle Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unit 3, near the middle of the section, collected at the boundary between facies 3 and 3c, just above the burrowed horizon.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; unlithified, concretionary, shelly/skeletal, gray, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by Benvenuti & Dominici
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Presumably M. Benvenuti and S. Dominici. REPOSITORY: Presumably, Dipartmento di Scienze della Terra, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.
Primary reference: M. Benvenuti and S. Dominici. 1992. Facies analysis, paleoecology and sequence stratigraphy in a Pliocene siliciclastic succession, Sanb Miniato (Pisa, Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 31(2):241-259 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78336: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
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Solen marginatus Pulteney 1799 clam | |
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Scrobicularia plana clam | |
Gastrana fragilis Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
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Spisula subtruncata, "Eastonia rugosa" = Standella (Eastonia)
"Eastonia rugosa" = Standella (Eastonia) clam | |
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Barnea candida clam | |
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba Oliva 1792 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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Turbonilla sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
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"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum Bruguière 1789 snail | |
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Rissoa angulatacuta snail | |
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"Hinia reticulata" = Nassarius (Hinia)
"Hinia reticulata" = Nassarius (Hinia) snail | |
"Scala "sp. 1"" = Epitonium (Scala), "Scala "sp. 2"" = Epitonium (Scala)
"Scala "sp. 1"" = Epitonium (Scala) Humphrey wentletrap | |
"Potamides tricinctus" = Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus
"Potamides tricinctus" = Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus Brocchi 1814 horn snail | |
Bittium deshayesi Cerulli Irelli 1912 cerith snail | |
Tricolia pulla snail |