Where: Italy (44.3° N, 8.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MPL3 - 4 zone, Argile de Ortovero Formation, Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Late Zanclean - Early Piacenzian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, silty claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Dell'Angelo, M. Sosso, M. Prudenza and A. Bonfitto. 2013. Notes on Fossil Chitons. 5. Polyplacophora from the Pliocene of Western Liguria, Northwest Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 119:65-107 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178221: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.04.2016

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