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
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 | |
Gastropoda | |
Pupilla muscorum Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Jaminia quadridens snail
Jaminia malatestai snail | |
Gyraulus crista snail
Gyraulus albus snail | |
Granaria frumentum slug | |
Vertigo pygmaea slug
Vertigo angustior slug | |
Vallonia pulchella slug | |
Vitrea contracta slug | |
Mammalia | |
Apodemus "gr. sylvaticus-flavicollis" Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse | |
Microtus (Microtus) cf. arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole | |
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew |