Agrigento (Miocene of Italy)

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

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Entimini indet. Schonherr 1823 snout beetle
SMF VI 221
Protainophthalmus asperulus Heer 1856 snout beetle
SMF VI 218, 220
? Lepropus sp. Schonherr 1823 snout beetle
SMF VI 219
Rhytidoderes sexsulcatus Heer 1856 snout beetle
SMF VI 217