Case Picconetto palaeosol CA (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Abruzzo, Italy (42.3° N, 13.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 13.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• directly below a tephra with a fission track on apatite date of 0.48 +/- 0.04 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; paleosol/pedogenic, silty claystone

• "alluvial fan deposits"
• "silty clay palaeosols"

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Marcolini, G. Bigazzi, F. P. Bonnadonna, E. Centamore, R. Cioni and G. Zanchetta. 2003. Tephrochronology and tephrostratigraphy of two Pleistocene continental fossiliferous successions from central Italy. Journal of Quaternary Science 18(6):545-556 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68336: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Pupilla muscorum Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Heterostropha -
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
 Stylommatophora - Truncatellinidae
 Stylommatophora - Chondrinidae
 Stylommatophora - Vertiginidae
 Stylommatophora - Valloniidae
 Stylommatophora - Pristilomatidae
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus "gr. sylvaticus-flavicollis" Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew