Also known as Protoma rotifera community sample 14
Where: Pordenone, Italy (46.2° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 12.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maraldi Sandstone Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Miocene Torento-Meduna sequence unconformably overlies the Eocene Clauzetto Flysch (Flysch di Clauzetto) and is composed of Preplans Sandstone, Zouf marl, Rugo Mizza Sandstone, San Martino Calcarenite, Torrente Meduna Siltstone, Maraldi Sandstone, Bier Puddingstone, and Montello Conglomerate. Thickness of the Maraldi Sandsone is approximately 220 m.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: prodelta; fine-grained, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
• Based on single bulk samples, about 30 cubic centimetres each. Grain size data also provided.
Primary reference: M.P. Bernasconi and E. Robba. 1993. Molluscan palaeoecology and sedimentological features: an integrated appraoch from the Miocene Meduna section, northern Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 100:267-290 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37365: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Protoma rotifera Deshayes 1832 turret shell | |
Naticarius tigrinus moon snail | |
"Ancilla glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis
"Ancilla glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis Lamarck 1810 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Panopea glycymeris Gmelin 1792 clam | |
Glossus humanus clam | |
Pelecyora brocchii, Pelecyora islandicoides, "Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella, Callista chione
Pelecyora brocchii venus clam
Pelecyora islandicoides Lamarck 1818 venus clam
"Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella Lamarck 1818 venus clam Subspecies: Venus multilamella glabroides
Callista chione Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Lutraria oblonga Gmelin 1791 clam | |
Gastrana fragilis Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Cardium kunstleri cockle | |
Myrtea sp. Turton 1822 clam | |
"Mytilus fuscus" = Botula fusca
"Mytilus fuscus" = Botula fusca Gmelin 1791 mussel | |
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii Lamarck 1805 clam Subspecies: Anadara diluvii pertransversa
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