Depiru Beds (Miocene of Italy)
Where: Malta, Italy (36.1° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 14.0° E)
When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; coarse-grained, white grainstone and limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. Muller. 1984. Messinian and Older decapods from the Mediterranean with description of two new species. Annales Géologiques des Pays Helléniques 32:25-34 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140155: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 04.03.2013
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Taxonomic list
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| Malacostraca | |
Petrolisthes haydni n. sp., Pisidia viai n. sp.
Petrolisthes haydni n. sp. Müller 1984 decapod
Pisidia viai n. sp. Muller 1984 decapod | |