Monterotondo Marittimo (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Grosseto, Italy (43.1° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 10.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Dated to the Lower-Middle Pliocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gray claystone

• Gray poorly fossiliferous clays

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Gruppo Paleontologico "C. De Giuli" (GPDG); Centro Civico "Ofelia Mangini", seat of Gruppo GAMPS (Badia a Settimo, Scandicci - Firenze) (CF-TCR), Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze (IGF)

Primary reference: A. De Angeli, A. Garassino, and G. Pasini. 2009. New reports of anomurans and brachyurans from the Cenozoic of Tuscany (Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 150(2):163-196 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221599: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2021

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Xanthidae
Monodaeus bortolottii Delle Cave 1988 stone crab
 Decapoda - Goneplacidae
"Goneplax gulderi" = Goneplax sacci
"Goneplax gulderi" = Goneplax sacci Crema 1895 crab
 Decapoda - Varunidae
Asthenognathus sp. Stimpson 1858 crab
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Raninoides pliocenicus n. sp. De Angeli et al. 2009 crab