Roncà (Eocene of Italy)

Where: Veneto, Italy (45.5° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Orizzonte di Ronca Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Late Lutetian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• ur, rich in iron silicates, with smaller and larger foraminifera, rare gastropods and nautiloids

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. M. Glibert. 1962. Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Cyclophoridae à Stilifetidae. Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Memoire, 10th sériés 69:1-304 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178203: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"? Clavocerithium corvinum" = Clava (Clavocerithium)
"? Clavocerithium corvinum" = Clava (Clavocerithium) cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Pachychilidae
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Ampullella ventraplana" = Ampullina
"Ampullella ventraplana" = Ampullina snail