Torino Hill, Moncucco Torinese, "facies à Congeria", M3 (Miocene of Italy)

Also known as MCC3

Where: Piedmont, Italy (45.1° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: facies à Congeria Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Late Messinian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified marl

• 6.5 m of beige to green-blue clayey marls with calcareous paleosol interbeds. This unit contains shells of dreissenid and limnocardiid bivalves along with melanopsid and hydrobiid gastropods and is an equivalent of the Lago-Mare biofacies of the Mediterranean area
• deeper (maybe slope?) environment with abundant terrigenous influence

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Colombero, D. M. Alba, C. D'Amico, M. Delfino, D. Esu, P. Giuntelli, M. Harzhauser, P. P. A. Masser, M. Mosca, T. A. Neubauer, G. Pavia, M. Pavia, A. Villa and G. Carnevale. 2017. Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.1.10A:1-66 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199860: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 18.02.2019, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Cerithioidea - Melanopsidae
Melanopsis narzolina Archiac 1846 snail
 Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Melanoides curvicosta Deshayes 1835 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Diplommatinidae
Cochlostoma esuanum Manganelli and Giusti 1997 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Craspedopomatidae
Craspedopoma conoidale Michaud 1855 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Saccoia globosa Harzhauser et al. 2015 snail
Saccoia oryza Brusina 1893 snail
 Stylommatophora - Milacidae
Milacidae indet. Ellis 1926 slug
 Stylommatophora - Parmacellidae
Parmacella "n. sp." Cuvier 1804 slug
 Stylommatophora - Limacidae
? Limax fossilis Sacco 1896 slug
 Stylommatophora - Agriolimacidae
Agriolimacidae indet. Wagner 1935 slug
 Stylommatophora - Clausiliidae
Nordsieckia pontica Lueger 1981 slug
Clausilia cf. baudoni Michaud 1862 slug
Truciella ballesioi Truc 1972 slug
 Stylommatophora - Helicodiscidae
Lucilla miocaenica Harzhauser et al. 2015 slug
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Theodoxus mutinensis d'Ancona 1869 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Dreissenidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Pontalmyra cf. incerta cockle
P. cf. incerta chiae
Amphibia
 Salientia - Hylidae
Hyla ex gr. arborea Linnaeus 1758 tree frog
 Salientia -
Latonia sp. von Meyer 1843 frog
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton pannonicum Venczel and Gardner 2005 tetrapod
MGPT-PU 132112, 132630, 132631
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Glis minor Kowalski 1963 dormouse
Muscardinus vireti Hugueney and Mein 1965 dormouse
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
 Rodentia - Castoridae
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus atavus Eurasian field mouse
Apodemus gudrunae van de Weerd 1976 Eurasian field mouse
Centralomys benericettii de Guili 1989 mouse
Stephanomys sp. Schaub 1938 mouse
Micromys bendai van de Weerd 1979 harvest mouse
Occitanomys brailloni Michaux 1969 mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Mesopithecus pentelicus Wagner 1839 monkey
cf. Macaca indet. Lacépède 1799 macaque
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Parasorex aff. ibericus Mein and Martín-Suárez 1993 hedgehog
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpa sp. Linnaeus 1758 mole
 Placentalia -
Chiroptera "indet. sp. 1" Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dihoplus schleiermacheri Kaup 1834 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 tapir
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Pliocervus sp. Hilzheimer 1922 deer
Euprox sp. Stehlin 1928 deer
 Carnivora - Felidae
Pantherinae indet. Pocock 1917 cat
 Carnivora - Viverridae
Viverridae indet. Gray 1821 civet
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys sp. Gray 1870 pond turtle
 Squamata -
Scolecophidia indet. Duméril and Bibron 1844 snake
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubrinae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
"colubrines indet."
 Squamata - Lacertidae
cf. Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates
 Squamata - Agamidae
Agamidae indet. Gray 1827 squamates
 Squamata - Anguidae
Anguinae "non-Anguis indet" Gray 1825 squamates
Aves
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columbidae indet. Illiger 1811 dove
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
Strigidae indet. Vigors 1825 true owl
Actinopteri
 Batrachoidiformes - Batrachoididae
"Diaphus aff. pedemontanus" = Porichthys pedemontanus
"Diaphus aff. pedemontanus" = Porichthys pedemontanus Robba 1970 toadfish
 Gobiiformes - Gobiidae
Lesueurigobius sp. Whitley 1950 goby
 Acanthomorphata - Sciaenidae
"Trewasciaena" sp. Schwarzhans 1993
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Diaphus befralai lanternfish
Diaphus taaningi Norma 1930 slopewater lanternfish
Diaphus splendidus Prochazka 1893 horned lanternfish
Myctophum coppa lanternfish
Benthosema aff. suborbitale Gilbert 1913 lanternfish
Otolithes
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"Gadiculus labiatus" = Otolithus labiatus
"Gadiculus labiatus" = Otolithus labiatus Schubert 1905