Where: Italy (40.1° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 17.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pietra Leccese Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Pietra Leccese Fm, which overlies the Andrano Fm, and is presumably unconformably overlain by the Uggiano la Chiesa Fm (Middle Pliocene). AGE: Upper Burgidalian to lower Messinian, on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy; placed by enterer in Early-Middle Miocene on the basis of unknown stratigraphic position and remaneé. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the "Terra Rossa" level of the Pietra Lecesse Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with phosphate

Collected by Ragaini

• COLLECTOR: Not stated, but presumably L. Ragaini. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but presumably the Natural History Museum, University of Pisa.

Primary reference: L. Ragaini. 1994. Neogene echinoids from Salento (Apulia, Southern Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 287-290 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96236: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.05.2010

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