Asti, Valle Andona (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (44.9° N, 8.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 8.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, calcareous sandstone

• Calcareous sands, shell conglomerates, oyster beds, soft marls

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H.J.W.G. Schalke, M. van den Bosch in 1969

• Repository: Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Primary reference: A. Dulai. 2016. Sporadic Pliocene and Pleistocene brachiopods in Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands): records from the Mediterranean, and the North Sea Basin. Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 33:65-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64056: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Cristina Story on 30.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham and Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
aff. Hemisyntrachelus sp.
aff. Hemisyntrachelus sp. Brandt 1873 dolphin
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula ampulla
Terebratula ampulla Brocchi 1814