Siena: Castelnuovo Berardenga, loc. Terre Rosse (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (43.3° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 11.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MPL4b/MPL5a other zone, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; mudstone

• Ecological note: infra- and circalittoral
• shelf mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. Scarponi and G. Della Bella. 2003. Molluschi marini del Plio-Pleistocene dell'Emilia-Romagna e della Toscana, Conoidea, Vol. 1 - Drilliidae e Turridae. Università di Bologna, Museo geologico Giovanni Capellini 1-89 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71101: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.04.2007, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• focus on Conoidea
Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
 Neogastropoda - Drilliidae
 Neogastropoda - Horaiclavidae
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Delphinidae
"Tursiops cortesii" = Hemisyntrachelus cortesii2
"Tursiops cortesii" = Hemisyntrachelus cortesii2 Fischer 1829 dolphin
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Monachini indet.1 Trouessart 1904 seal