Where: Veneto, Italy (45.8° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 9.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Castelgomberto Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. E. Reuss. 1868. Paläontologische Studien über die älteren Tertiärschichten der Alpen, 1: Die fossilen Anthozoen der Schichten von Castelgomberto [Paleontological studies about the older Tertiary beds in the Alps, 1: The fossil Anthozoa from the Castelcomberto Formation]. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 28:129-184 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91654: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.10.2009, edited by Mark Uhen

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