Cava di Monticelli, Quattro Castella (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Reggio Emilia, Italy (44.6° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; unlithified claystone

• Upper bathyal

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Geologico di Castell’Arquato

Primary reference: L. Bertolaso, E. Borghi, and D. García Ramos. 2009. Brachiopodi neogenici e pleistocenici dell'Emilia (parte seconda). Parva Naturalia 8:3-42 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119001: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 19.10.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Discinida - Disciniidae
Discinisca sp.
Discinisca sp. Gray 1840
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Bathytoma sp.
Bathytoma sp. Harris and Burrows 1891 snail