Also known as Protoma rotifera community sample 14
Where: Pordenone, Italy (46.2° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 12.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maraldi Sandstone Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Miocene Torento-Meduna sequence unconformably overlies the Eocene Clauzetto Flysch (Flysch di Clauzetto) and is composed of Preplans Sandstone, Zouf marl, Rugo Mizza Sandstone, San Martino Calcarenite, Torrente Meduna Siltstone, Maraldi Sandstone, Bier Puddingstone, and Montello Conglomerate. Thickness of the Maraldi Sandsone is approximately 220 m.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: prodelta; fine-grained, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• Based on single bulk samples, about 30 cubic centimetres each. Grain size data also provided.
Primary reference: M.P. Bernasconi and E. Robba. 1993. Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 100:267-290 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37365: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Protoma rotifera Deshayes 1832 turret shell | |
"Ancilla glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis
"Ancilla glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis Lamarck 1810 snail | |
Naticarius tigrinus moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Mytilus fuscus" = Botula fusca
"Mytilus fuscus" = Botula fusca Gmelin 1791 mussel | |
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii Lamarck 1805 clam Subspecies: Anadara diluvii pertransversa
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Myrtea sp. Turton 1822 clam | |
Lutraria oblonga Gmelin 1791 clam | |
Glossus humanus clam | |
Callista chione, "Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella, Pelecyora brocchii, Pelecyora islandicoides
Callista chione Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
"Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella Lamarck 1818 venus clam Subspecies: Venus multilamella glabroides
Pelecyora brocchii venus clam
Pelecyora islandicoides Lamarck 1818 venus clam | |
Cardium kunstleri cockle | |
Gastrana fragilis Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Panopea glycymeris Gmelin 1792 clam |