Where: Abruzzo, Italy (42.3° N, 13.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 13.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• several beds below palaeosol CA, which is immediately below a tephra with a fission track on apatite date of 0.48 +/- 0.04 Ma
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; paleosol/pedogenic, silty claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: F. Marcolini, G. Bigazzi, F. P. Bonnadonna, E. Centamore, R. Cioni and G. Zanchetta. 2003. Tephrochronology and tephrostratigraphy of two Pleistocene continental fossiliferous successions from central Italy. Journal of Quaternary Science 18(6):545-556 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68337: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.01.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
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Vallonia pulchella slug | |
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Vertigo sp. Muller 1774 slug | |
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Clausiliidae indet. Gray 1855 slug | |
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Helicodonta obvoluta slug | |
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Milax sp. Gray 1855 slug | |
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Limax sp. Linnaeus 1758 slug | |
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Vitrea subrimata slug | |
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Oxychilus sp. Fitzinger 1833 slug | |
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Carychium tridentatum snail | |
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Cochlostoma sp. Jan 1830 snail | |
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Pomatias elegans periwinkle | |
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Discus rotundatus disk snail | |