Where: Italy (43.7° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 10.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the upper part of the Pliocene sedimentary tectonic cycles in Arno Valley basin, which . THICKNESS: From bed within section of about 35 m thickness. AGE: Early Pliocene, on the basis of lithostratigraphic correlation, which ties this section into the Globorotalia crassaformis biozone, immediately preceding the middle Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unit 4, towards the top of the section, collected in the second shell accumulation of unit 4.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow, silty, carbonaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Benvenuti & Dominici
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTORS: Presumably M. Benvenuti and S. Dominici. REPOSITORY: Presumably, Dipartmento di Scienze della Terra, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.
Primary reference: M. Benvenuti and S. Dominici. 1992. Facies analysis, paleoecology and sequence stratigraphy in a Pliocene siliciclastic succession, Sanb Miniato (Pisa, Italy). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 31(2):241-259 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78338: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Polychaeta | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
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Anadara darwini ark | |
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"Gastrochaena dubia" = Gastrochaena (Rocellaria) dubia
"Gastrochaena dubia" = Gastrochaena (Rocellaria) dubia Pennant 1777 clam | |
Cerastoderma edule Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Scrobicularia plana clam | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
Gastrana fragilis Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
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Chama placentina jewel box | |
Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam | |
"Dosinia lupinus" = Dosinia lupina, Tapes eremita, Chamelea gallina, Pitar rudis, Pelecyora brocchii
"Dosinia lupinus" = Dosinia lupina Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
Tapes eremita venus clam
Chamelea gallina Linneus 1758 venus clam
Pitar rudis Poli 1795 venus clam
Pelecyora brocchii venus clam | |
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba Oliva 1792 clam | |
Loripes lucinalis clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Cylichna cylindracea" = Cylichna (Cylichna) cylindracea
"Cylichna cylindracea" = Cylichna (Cylichna) cylindracea Pennant 1777 snail | |
Ringicula sp. Deshayes 1838 snail | |
Odostomia conoidea Brocchi 1814 snail
Turbonilla sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Calyptraea chinensis Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum Bruguière 1789 snail Present only as a juvenile
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Caecum trachea snail | |
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Rissoa angulatacuta snail
Rissoa sp. Fréminville 1814 snail | |
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Cythara sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
"Hinia reticulata" = Nassarius (Hinia)
"Hinia reticulata" = Nassarius (Hinia) snail | |
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Triphora pervesa snail | |
"Scala sp." = Epitonium (Scala)
"Scala sp." = Epitonium (Scala) Humphrey wentletrap | |
"Potamides tricinctus" = Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus
"Potamides tricinctus" = Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus Brocchi 1814 horn snail Present only as a juvenile
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Bittium deshayesi Cerulli Irelli 1912 cerith snail
Bittium reticulatum Montagu 1803 cerith snail | |
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Tricolia pulla snail |