Altavilla Milicia, Orto2: Late Pliocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polyplacophora - Chitonida - Acanthochitonidae
45 specimens
10 specimens
Polyplacophora - Chitonida - Ischnochitonidae
Ischnochiton rissoi (Payraudeau 1826)
1 specimen
2 specimens
Ischnochiton martinelli Angelo et al. 2004
7 specimens
Stenosemus dolii (Van Belle and Angelo 1998)
56 specimens
Polyplacophora - Chitonida - Chitonidae
7 specimens
Polyplacophora - Callochitonida - Callochitonidae
1 specimen
Polyplacophora - Leptochitonidae
Leptochiton cancellatus (Sowerby 1840)
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 38.0° North, 13.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pliocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sabbie di Altavilla
Stratigraphy comments: presumably older than the late Upper Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow silty sandstone
Lithology description: ellowish fine silty sand
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:175549
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-12-14 02:58:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-03-14 02:58:50
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
57345. B. Dell’Angelo, V. Garilli, A. Germanà, A. Reitano, M. Sosso and A. Bonfitto. 2012. Notes on fossil chitons. 4. Polyplacophora from the Pliocene of Altavilla (NW Sicily). Bollettino Malacologico 48(1):51-68 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]