Where: Provinz Siena, Italy (42.9° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 11.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcare Massiccio Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Early Mid-Pliocene in paper, Middle Pliocene in title

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified rudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Checconi, D. Bassi, L. Passeri and R. Rettori. 2007. Coralline red algal assemblage from the Middle Pliocene shallow-water temperate carbonates of the Monte Cetona (Northern Apennines, Italy). Facies (53)57-66 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 138092: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.01.2013, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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