Where: Italy (45.1° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 7.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Montaldo Member (Sant'Agata Fossili Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Later based on the abundant and well-preserved foraminifers (d’Onofrio et al. 1975), and on the basis of pteropods (Pavia & Robba 1979) the age of the sediments was referred as Early Messinian. However, a more recent revision of the pteropod fauna of Tetti Borelli indicates again a Tortonian age (Janssen 2012). In his monograph, Janssen (2012) also refers to renewed foraminifera analysis which confirms the Tortonian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by A. Janssen in 1988, 1992
Collection methods: sieve
• Repository: Naturalis Natural History Museum, Leiden
Primary reference: A. Dulai. 2010. Early Messinian (Late Miocene) micromorphic brachiopods from Borelli (Italy, Piemonte). Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 28:21-31 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186801: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Cryptopora lovisati Dreger 1911 | |
Lacazella mediterranea Risso 1826 | |
Megerlia truncata Linnaeus 1767 | |
Megathiris detruncata Gmelin 1791
Joania aff. falunica de Morgan 1915 | |
Eucalathis giulioi Dulai 2019 |