Near Borgo San Nicola (Miocene to of Italy)

Where: Italy (40.4° N, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pietra Leccese Formation, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)

• "Piromafo" - a glauconitic facies of the Pietra Leccese Formation. Moderately to intensely glauconitic parts of the Pietra Leccese Fm are condensed intervals with many hiatuses during the Langhian, Serravallian, and early Tortonian (Mazzei et al. 2009).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic limestone

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 197404: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.11.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia aturi Basterot 1825 nautiloid