Where: Italy (37.8° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 14.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M.V. Melville in 1952; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: E. F. Owen and E. P. F. Rose. 1997. Early Jurassic brachiopods from Gibraltar, and their Tethyan affinities. Palaeontology 40:497-513 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135355: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
"Merophricus mediterranea" = Merophricus mediterraneus
"Merophricus mediterranea" = Merophricus mediterraneus Canavari 1884 |