G1631, Punta Lazzi, Capo Milazzo (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (38.3° N, 15.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 15.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• 2.5 m-thick sandy gray marl. Calabrian according to Borghi et al., 2014.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, gray, sandy marl

• Bathyal marls infilling hollows in older (late Miocene) sediments.
• Lithified based on outcrop photo in Borghi et al. (2014).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Istituto di Geologie e di Paleontologia dell'Universita di Messina

Primary reference: M. Gaetani and D. Sacca. 1984. Brachiopodi batiali nel Pliocene e Pleistocene di Silicia e Calabria. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 90:407-458 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187488: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dyscoliidae
Ceramisia meneghiniana Seguenza 1865
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Gryphus sphenoideus Philippi 1844
 Terebratulida - Dallinidae
Dallina septigera Loven 1846
 Terebratulida - Aulacothyropsidae
Fallax septatus Philippi 1844