Where: Italy (37.9° N, 12.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 12.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• 600–400 BC

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Primary reference: D. S. Reese. 2005. Whale bones and shell purple-dye at Motya (western Sicily, Italy). Oxford Journal of Archaeology 24(2):107-114 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 196903: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.10.2018

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