Milasso, Messina: Gelasian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Frieleiidae
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Sphenarina sicula
(Davidson 1870)
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Geography
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: | 38.3° North, 15.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.2° North, 15.2° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Gelasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Gelasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Only "Pliocene" given but most likely Gelasian in age. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow lithified marl |
| Lithology description: Lithified based on outcrop photo in Borghi et al. (2014). | |
| Environment: | basinal (carbonate) |
| Geology comments: Bathyal locality | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 187475 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-07-30 16:16:17 | Last modified: | 2017-07-30 16:16:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-07-30 16:16:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 39270. | G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |