Where: Italy (38.1° N, 15.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 15.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• Listed as "Upper Pliocene" with no additional justification. Presumably Gelasian, based on other Upper Pliocene localities in the paper.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow limestone
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 187512: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Aphelesia bipartita Brocchi 1814 | |
Terebratulina retusa Linnaeus 1758 | |
Terebratula calabra Seguenza 1871 | |
Megerlia truncata Linnaeus 1767
Megerlia eusticta Philippi 1836 |