Also known as Girgenti
Where: Italy (37.3° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 13.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• "Late Miocene" is highly likely Messinian.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the SMF
Primary reference: V. V. Zherikhin. 1992. Tertiary weevils (Insecta, Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), identified from collections of the Senckenberg Museum. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 72:169-178 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 162051: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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