Where: Asti, Italy (44.8° N, 8.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sabbie d'Asti Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• late Zanclean to early Piacenzian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. G. Caretto. 1970. La balenottera delle sabbie plioceniche di Valmontasca (Vigliano d'Asti). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 9(1):3-75 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80610: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.04.2008

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