BRS2 (Brisighella fissures): Turolian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
? Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Ravenna
Coordinates: 44.2° North, 11.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.0° North, 11.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Turolian
Age range of interval:8.70000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Late Turolian, MN 13". Unclear (given old paper) if this is now classified as Messinian given where MN 13 sits in today's classifications.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:202034
Authorizer:T. Cleary Enterer:T. Cleary
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-06-18 11:26:01 Last modified:2019-06-18 11:26:01
Access level:the public Released:2019-06-18 11:26:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

69211. T. Kotsakis. 1989. Late Turolian amphibians and reptiles from Brisighella (Northern Italy): preliminary report. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 28(2-3):277-280 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]