Unit 1, Sample C1 - Poggio al Lupo Quarry (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (43.7° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the upper part of the Pliocene sedimentary tectonic cycles in Arno Valley basin, which . THICKNESS: From bed within section of about 35 m thickness. AGE: Early Pliocene, on the basis of lithostratigraphic correlation, which ties this section into the Globorotalia crassaformis biozone, immediately preceding the middle Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unit 1, at the base of the section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, silty sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Inner shelf below fair-weather wave base, influenced by freshwater outputs.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Alternation of grey muddy sands and muds, with strong biotrubation and abundant organic material and molluscs. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens and outcrop photos.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Benvenuti & Dominici

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Presumably M. Benvenuti and S. Dominici. REPOSITORY: Presumably, Dipartmento di Scienze della Terra, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.

Primary reference: M. Benvenuti and S. Dominici. 1992. Facies analysis, paleoecology and sequence stratigraphy in a Pliocene siliciclastic succession, Sanb Miniato (Pisa, Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 31(2):241-259 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78335: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with taxa identified to species resolution.
unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Phasianellidae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Jujubinus sp. Monterosato 1884 top snail
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
"Scala sp." = Epitonium (Scala)
"Scala sp." = Epitonium (Scala) Humphrey wentletrap
Present only as juvenile
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula unguliformis slipper shell
Present only as juvenile
Calyptraea chinensis Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell
Present only as juvenile
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Bittium reticulatum Montagu 1803 cerith snail
Bittium deshayesi Cerulli Irelli 1912 cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Haustator vermicularis Brocchi 1814 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
"Potamides tricinctus" = Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus Brocchi 1814 horn snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum Bruguière 1789 snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Hinia reticulata" = Nassarius (Hinia) snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
Present only as juvenile
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Cythara sp. Schumacher 1817 snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
Neverita josephina moon snail
Present only as juvenile
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Triphoridae
Triphora perversa Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Caecidae
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
"Ringicula auriculata" = Ringicula minor
"Ringicula auriculata" = Ringicula minor Grateloup 1838 snail
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Pyramidellidae indet. Gray 1840 snail
Odostomia "sp. 1" Fleming 1817 snail
Odostomia sp. Fleming 1817 snail
 Heterostropha - Murchisonellidae
Ebala roeri snail
Present only as juvenile
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam
Present only as juvenile
Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark
Present only as juvenile
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam
Present only as juvenile
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
Present only as juvenile
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba Oliva 1792 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar rudis Poli 1795 venus clam
Chamelea amidei venus clam
Timoclea ovata Pennant 1777 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mesodesmatidae
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam
 Cardiida - Donacidae
 Solenida - Solenidae
Solen marginatus Pulteney 1799 clam
 Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis sp. Schumacher 1817 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Glans sp. Mühfeld 1811 clam
Present only as juvenile
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Present only as juvenile
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana pella pointed nut clam
Nuculana fragilis pointed nut clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell