Where: Sicily, Italy (38.2° N, 15.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 15.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Grasshoff. 1980. Isididae aus dem Pliozän und Pleistozän von Sizilien (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) [Isididae from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Sicily (Cnidaria: Octocorallia)]. Senckenbergiana lethaea 60:435-447 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85005: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2008

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