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)
• "Upper Pliocene" - MPL 5. Presumably Gelasian based on other localities, although MPL 5 foram zone spans late Piacenzian to early Gelasian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified conglomerate
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 187570: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Megerlia eusticta Philippi 1836
Megerlia truncata Linnaeus 1767 | |
Megathiris detruncata Gmelin 1791 | |
Terebratula calabra Seguenza 1871 | |
Terebratulina retusa Linnaeus 1758 |