Also known as Pecten purigalensis community sample 8
Where: Pordenone, Italy (46.2° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 12.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rugo Mizza Sandstone Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Miocene Torento-Meduna sequence unconformably overlies the Eocene Clauzetto Flysch (Flysch di Clauzetto) and is composed of Preplans Sandstone, Zouf marl, Rugo Mizza Sandstone, San Martino Calcarenite, Torrente Meduna Siltstone, Maraldi Sandstone, Bier Puddingstone, and Montello Conglomerate. Thickness of the Rugo Mizza Sandsone is approximately 215 m.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; glauconitic, silty marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• Based on single bulk samples, about 30 cubic centimetres each. Grain size data also provided.
Primary reference: M.P. Bernasconi and E. Robba. 1993. Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 100:267-290 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37361: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pecten burdigalensis scallop
Pecten fuchsi scallop | |
Loripes dentatus clam | |
Crassatella carcarensis Michelotti 1847 clam |