Where: Italy (38.1° N, 15.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 15.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)
• "Lower Pleistocene" - presumably Calabrian because reassignment of Gelasian to Pleistocene after publication.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Istituto di Geologie e di Paleontologia dell'Universita di Messina
Primary reference: M. Gaetani and D. Sacca. 1985. Brachiopodi Neogenici e Pleistocenici della provincia di Messina e della Calabria meridionale. Geologica Romana 22:1-43 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187564: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina retusa Linnaeus 1758 | |
Gryphus minor Philippi 1836
Terebratula scillae Segeunza 1871 |