Zinola (Savona): Zanclean - Piacenzian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Creseinae sp.
Janssen 1995
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium (Nemocardium) italicum
La Perna and D’Abramo 2011
Gastropoda - Triviidae
Niveria avellanula (Sacco 1894)
Fehse and Landau 2002
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Zonaria porcellus (Brocchi 1814)
Fehse 2012
Gastropoda - Personidae
Personopsis grasi (D'Ancona 1872)
Beu 2010
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Sveltia tribulus
Brunetti et al. 2006
Sveltia tribulus perscalaris
Tribia latefasciata
Brunetti et al. 2006
Gastropoda - Capulidae
Capulus (Zinolia) speciosus n. sp. (Issel 1922)
Wenz 1938
Early Piancenzien
Gastropoda - Pickworthiidae
Mareleptopoma minor
Sosso et al. 2008
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cavoliniidae
Cuvierina intermedia (Bellardi 1873)
Janssen 1995
recombined as Cuvierina (Urceolarica) intermedia
Late Zanclean
Cuvierina astesana (Rang 1829)
Janssen 1995
Late Zanclean
Clio pyramidata Linnaeus 1767
Janssen 1995
CIio pyramidata IanceoIata
Diacria trispinosa (de Blainville 1821)
Janssen 1995
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Haminoeidae
Atys pliocrassa
Mauro and Giuseppe 2005
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 8.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.2° North, 8.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean - Piacenzian Zone: MPL3 - 4
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Argile de Ortovero
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Late Zanclean - Early Piacenzian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified silty claystone
Lithology description: Clayey silt
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:178221
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-04-27 22:12:35 Last modified:2016-04-27 23:36:49
Access level:the public Released:2016-04-27 22:12:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

59003. B. Dell'Angelo, M. Sosso, M. Prudenza and A. Bonfitto. 2013. Notes on Fossil Chitons. 5. Polyplacophora from the Pliocene of Western Liguria, Northwest Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 119:65-107 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

30037 A. G. Beu. 2010. Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology (377-378)1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]
59011 M. M. Brunetti, M. Forli, and G. Vecchi. 2006. La Famiglia Cancellariidae Gray J.E., 1853 nel Plio-Pleistocene mediterraneo. I generi Tribia Jousseaume, 1887 e Scalptia Jousseaume, 1887 con descrizione di due nuove specie. Bollettino Malacologico 42(5/8):39-57 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
58848 D. Fehse. 2012. On the identity of Cypraea cocconii Mayer-Eymar 1875 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Cypraeidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(2):145-153 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
59005 D. Fehse and B. Landau. 2002. Contributions to triviid systematics (Mollusca, Gastropoda), 6. Early Pliocene Triviidae from the western Mediterranean. Cainozoic Research 2(1-2):87-107 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
59008 A. W. Janssen. 1995. Systematic revision of holoplanktonic Mollusca in the collections of the" Dipartimento di scienze della terra" at Torino, Italy. Museo regionale di scienze naturali 17:1-225 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
59007 R. La Perna and M. D’Abramo. 2011. The genus Nemocardium Meek 1876 in the Plio-Pleistocene of Italy (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). Journal of Conchology 40(5):559-568 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/M. Uhen]
58927 B. M. Mauro and V. Giuseppe. 2005. Nuove specie di Gasteropodi del Piacenziano di rio Crevalese, Castell’Arquato (Piacenza, Italia). Bollettino Malacologico 41(1-4):1-22 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
59004 M. Sosso, M. Larosa, B. Dell’Angelo, A. Bonfitto, and S. Schiaparelli. 2008. Nuovi record di Mareleptopoma minor (Almera & Bofill, 1898) (Gastropoda: Pickworthiidae) per il Pliocene Italiano. Notiziario S.I.M. Supplemento al Bollettino Malacologico 26(1-8):13-16 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
7435 W. Wenz. 1938. Handbuch der Paläozoologie; Gastropoda. Handbuch der Paläozoologie 1-240 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/P. Wagner]