Where: Italy (40.0° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 17.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pietra Leccese Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• From the "Aturia level." On the basis of strontium-isotope analyses and biostratigraphic data on calcareous nannofossils, Föllmi et al. (2015) restricted the age of the Aturia level to the early Serravallian/late Tortonian. However, Bossio et al. (2002, 2005, 2008) and Mazzei et al. (2009) argued for a late Burdigalian (or early Langhian) age for the basal Pietra Leccese Formation and Aturia level, on the basis of planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossils.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Museo di Paleontologia dell'Università di Pisa

Primary reference: A. Bossio. 1972. Alcune specie di Aturia (Nautiloidea) della Puglia e dell'Arcipelago di Malta. Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali Residente in Pisa, Memorie, Serie A 79:87-94 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197291: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.10.2018

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