Villafranca d'Asti, Fornace Pit (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Piemonte, Italy (44.9° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified, gray, green claystone

• grey to grey-green humous clay

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: D. H. Mai. 1995. Palaeocarpological investigations in the Villafranchian (Pliocene) of Italy. Bollettino Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali 13(2):407-437 [B. Tiffney/S. Pendleton/S. Pendleton]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27023: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Sara Pendleton on 13.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Hypericaceae
Hypericum cf. danicum St John's wort
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Paliurus favonii Unger 1847 buckthorn
 Rosales - Rosaceae
 Rosales - Pomaceae
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Myrtaceae
Angiospermae
 Nymphaeales - Nymphaeaceae
 Caryophyllales - Polygonaceae
 Gentianales - Rubiaceae
 Saxifragales - Haloragaceae
 Ranunculales - Ranunculaceae
 Ranunculales - Fumariaceae
 Poales - Cyperaceae
 Alismatales - Potamogetonaceae
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Manzanellidae
"Cyrilla cf. rhenana" = Huxleyia
"Cyrilla cf. rhenana" = Huxleyia clam