Carcare (Eocene of Italy)

Where: Savona, Italy (44.4° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 6.4° E)

When: NP21a nannofossil zone, Molare Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Tongriano; uppermost Priabonian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. A. Schilder. 1932. Revisione delle Cypraeacea Fossili del Piemonte e della Liguria. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia 38(1-2):9-52 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179787: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.06.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Callistocypraea praecedens" = Lyncina praecedens, Trona carcarensis n. sp.
"Callistocypraea praecedens" = Lyncina praecedens Sacco 1894 cowry
Trona carcarensis n. sp. Schilder 1932 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Triviidae
"Trivia michelottii" = Trivia (Trivia) michelottii
"Trivia michelottii" = Trivia (Trivia) michelottii Dollfus and Dautzenberg 1886 snail