Where: Italy (44.1° N, 8.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 8.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Argille di Ortovera Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A.W. Janssen in 1988
Collection methods: bulk
• Repository: Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Primary reference: A. Dulai. 2016. Sporadic Pliocene and Pleistocene brachiopods in Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands): records from the Mediterranean, and the North Sea Basin. Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 33:65-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187604: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratula ampulla Brocchi 1814 | |
Aphelesia bipartita Brocchi 1814 |