BRS2 (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 202034: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 18.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Testudinidae
? Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle