Where: Italy (43.9° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Lower Messinian, Upper Miocene, base of the unit “Bituminous Marls”, 10 m below the level “Strato degli insetti”, in which more than 90% of all fossil dragonflies of Monte Castellaro have been discovered. Its age may be several thousand years older than that of other dragonflies from the same deposit.

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Paleontologico di Fiorenzuola di Focara

Primary reference: A. Nel, J. F. Petrulevičius, G. Gentilini and X. Martínez-Delclòs. 2005. Un nouvel Odonate du Miocene d'Italie (Odon.). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 110(2):188 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105570: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 22.02.2011

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