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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Monodaeus bortolottii Delle Cave 1988 stone crab | |
"Goneplax gulderi" = Goneplax sacci
"Goneplax gulderi" = Goneplax sacci Crema 1895 crab | |
Asthenognathus sp. Stimpson 1858 crab | |
Raninoides pliocenicus n. sp.
Raninoides pliocenicus n. sp. De Angeli et al. 2009 crab |