Messina (Middle Miocene) (Miocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (38.2° N, 15.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Only "Middle Miocene" given.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• Lithified based on sediment characteristics at Milazzo Peninsula, and based on fossil preservation.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187482: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Streptaria debuchii
Streptaria debuchii Michelotti 1839