Unit 3, Sample C3 - Poggio al Lupo Quarry (Pliocene of Italy)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Marsh and open lagoon settings.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Grey structureless silty sands and muds, containing calcareous nodules and sparse disarticulated valves, heavily bioeroded. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens and outcrop photos.

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

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with taxa identified to species resolution.
unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark
Present only as juvenile
 Carditida - Carditidae
Glans sp. Mühfeld 1811 clam
Present only as juvenile
 Solenida - Solenidae
Solen marginatus Pulteney 1799 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Present only as juvenile
 Cardiida - Semelidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Gastrana fragilis Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax venustus clam
Present only as juvenile
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam
Present only as juvenile
"Eastonia rugosa" = Standella (Eastonia) clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chamelea amidei venus clam
Present only as juvenile
Chamelea gallina Linneus 1758 venus clam
Present only as juvenile
Pitar rudis Poli 1795 venus clam
Present only as juvenile
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba Oliva 1792 clam
Gastropoda
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna cilindracea snail
Present only as juvenile
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Turbonilla sp. Risso 1826 snail
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea chinensis Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell
Present only as juvenile
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum Bruguière 1789 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail
Present only as juvenile
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Muricidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 murex snail
Present only as juvenile
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Hinia reticulata" = Nassarius (Hinia)
"Hinia reticulata" = Nassarius (Hinia) snail
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
"Scala "sp. 1"" = Epitonium (Scala), "Scala "sp. 2"" = Epitonium (Scala)
"Scala "sp. 1"" = Epitonium (Scala) Humphrey wentletrap
"Scala "sp. 2"" = Epitonium (Scala) Humphrey wentletrap
Present only as juvenile
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
"Potamides tricinctus" = Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus
"Potamides tricinctus" = Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus Brocchi 1814 horn snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Bittium deshayesi Cerulli Irelli 1912 cerith snail
 Trochoidea - Phasianellidae