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 | |
Aturia aturi Basterot 1825 nautiloid |