Where: Italy (38.2° N, 15.6° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 38.0° N, 15.8° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Said to be "Late Pleistocene" but Gryphus minor went extinct in the Calabrian according to Taddei Ruggiero & Raia (2010).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal 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 187569: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.08.2017
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Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Gryphus minor Philippi 1836 |