BRS3 (Brisighella fissures) (Miocene of Italy)

Where: Ravenna, Italy (44.2° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 11.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• "Late Turolian, MN 13". Unclear (given old paper) if this is now classified as Messinian given where MN 13 sits in today's classifications.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. Kotsakis. 1989. Late Turolian amphibians and reptiles from Brisighella (Northern Italy): preliminary report. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 28(2-3):277-280 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202035: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 18.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog
Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
"Ophisaurus cf. pannonicus" = Pseudopus pannonicus, Anguis sp.
"Ophisaurus cf. pannonicus" = Pseudopus pannonicus Kormos 1911 legless lizard
Anguis sp. Linnaeus 1758 slow worm
 Squamata - Varanidae
Varanidae indet. Hardwicke and Gray 1824 monitor lizard
single tooth
 Squamata - Boidae
Erycinae indet. Bonaparte 1825 sand boa
"one very characteristic caudal vertebra"
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubrinae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
fragmentary vertebra
Natricinae indet. Bonaparte 1838 colubrid snake
 Squamata - Gekkonidae
Gekkonidae indet. Gray 1825 gecko
fragment of dentary
 Squamata - Lacertidae
sensu lato Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates