G1705, Ponte del Calderaro (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (38.9° N, 16.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• "Pleistocene according to the geological map". No other information given. Presumably Calabrian, but possibly middle Pleistocene.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, yellow limestone

• Cross-bedded yellow calcarenite. No information on lithification.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Istituto di Geologie e di Paleontologia dell'Universita di Messina

Primary reference: M. Gaetani and D. Sacca. 1984. Brachiopodi batiali nel Pliocene e Pleistocene di Silicia e Calabria. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 90:407-458 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187516: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dallinidae
Dallina septigera Loven 1846
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Macandrevia cranium Muller 1776
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Gryphus sp. Megerle von Mühlfeld 1811
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina retusa Linnaeus 1758