Torino Hill, Moncucco Torinese, "facies à Congeria" (for unassigned specimens) (Miocene of Italy)

Also known as MCC

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: M. Harzhauser, T. A. Neubauer, E. Georgopoulou, D. Esu, C. D’Amico, G. Pavia, P. Giuntelli, G. Carnevale, and H. Nordsieck. 2015. Late Messinian continental and Lago-Mare gastropods from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 54(1):1-53 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172910: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 31.08.2015, edited by Terri Cleary

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Lymnocardiidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Pontalmyra cf. incerta cockle
"Pontalmyra cf. incerta chiae" in text
Pachydacna sp. Eberzin 1955 cockle
 Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Pisidium sp. Pfeiffer 1821 pea clam
 Cardiida - Dreissenidae
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Stylommatophora - Ferussaciidae
Ferussaciidae indet. Bourguignat 1883 slug
Cecilioides acicula Müller 1774 slug
 Stylommatophora - Succineidae
Succineidae indet. Beck 1837 amber snail
 Stylommatophora - Milacidae
Milacidae indet. Ellis 1926 slug
 Stylommatophora - Parmacellidae
Parmacella sp. Cuvier 1804 slug
Parmacella "n. sp." Cuvier 1804 slug
 Stylommatophora - Gastrodontidae
Janulus cf. spadinii Manganelli et al. 2011 slug
 Stylommatophora - Limacidae
? Limax fossilis Sacco 1896 slug
 Stylommatophora - Agriolimacidae
Agriolimacidae indet. Wagner 1935 slug
 Stylommatophora - Vertiginidae
 Stylommatophora - Argnidae
Argna proexcessiva Sacco 1889 slug
 Stylommatophora - Strobilopsidae
Strobilops romani Wenz 1915 slug
 Stylommatophora - Gastrocoptidae
 Stylommatophora - Cochlicopidae
 Stylommatophora - Truncatellinidae
 Stylommatophora - Orculidae
Pagodulina "n. sp." Clessin 1876 slug
 Stylommatophora - Valloniidae
Vallonia subcyclophorella Gottschick 1911 slug
 Stylommatophora - Acanthinulidae
Acanthinula "n. sp." Beck 1847 slug
 Stylommatophora - Helicodiscidae
Helicodiscus roemeri Andreae 1902 slug
Lucilla miocaenica Harzhauser et al. 2015 slug
 Stylommatophora - Clausiliidae
Cochlodina (Miophaedusa) sp. Nordsieck 1972 slug
? Clausiliinae sp. Gray 1855 slug
Truciella ballesioi Truc 1972 slug
? Serrulella sp. Nordsieck 1978 slug
Nordsieckia pontica Lueger 1981 slug
 Stylommatophora - Hygromiidae
Helicopsis piedmontanica n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2015 slug
Listed as "? Helicopsis n. sp. piedmontanica" in the text since the authors are not sure if it belongs to Helicopsis but standardised here to link to taxon record in database
 Heterostropha - Carychiidae
"Carychiella puisseguri" = Carychium puisseguri Truc 1972 snail
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Bulinus meneghinii Sacco 1886 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Diplommatinidae
Cochlostoma esuanum Manganelli and Giusti 1997 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Craspedopomatidae
Craspedopoma conoidale Michaud 1855 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Aciculidae
Platyla manganellii Harzhauser et al. 2015 snail
Acicula "n. sp." Hartmann 1821 snail
Acicula giuntellii Harzhauser et al. 2015 snail
Acicula cf. lineata Draparnaud 1801 snail
Renea "n. sp." Neville 1880 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobiidae "n. sp." Troschel 1857 snail
? Prososthenia "n. sp. A" Neumayr 1869 snail
? Prososthenia "n. sp. B" Neumayr 1869 snail
Saccoia oryza Brusina 1893 snail
Saccoia globosa Harzhauser et al. 2015 snail
 Cerithioidea - Melanopsidae
Melanopsis narzolina Archiac 1846 snail
 Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Melanoides curvicosta Deshayes 1835 snail
 Cycloneritida - Hydrocenidae
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Theodoxus mutinensis d'Ancona 1869 snail
Theodoxus doderleini d'Ancona 1869 snail
Aves
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
Strigidae indet. Vigors 1825 true owl
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes "indet. "large"" Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
Passeriformes "indet. "medium"" Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
Passeriformes "indet. "small"" Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Palaeortyx cf. gallica Milne-Edwards 1869 pheasant
Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Anguinae "non-Anguis indet" Gray 1825 squamates
 Squamata - Gekkonidae
cf. Euleptes sp. Fitzinger 1843 gecko
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubrinae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
"colubrines indet." in text
 Squamata - Boidae
Eryx sp. Daudin 1803 true sand boa
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Vipera "Oriental group sp." Laurenti 1768 pit viper
 Squamata - Agamidae
Agamidae indet. Gray 1827 squamates
 Squamata - Lacertidae
cf. Lacerta sp. Linnaeus 1758 squamates
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Chiroptera "indet. sp. 1" Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Carnivora - Felidae
Pristifelis attica Wagner 1857 cat
Pantherinae indet. Pocock 1917 cat
 Carnivora - Ursidae
"Euarctos pyrenaicus" = Ursus
"Euarctos pyrenaicus" = Ursus bear
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dihoplus schleiermacheri Kaup 1834 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Euprox sp. Stehlin 1928 deer
Pliocervus sp. Hilzheimer 1922 deer
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
aff. Palaeomeryx sp. von Meyer 1834 ruminant
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpa sp. Linnaeus 1758 mole
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Parasorex aff. ibericus Mein and Martín-Suárez 1993 hedgehog
 Rodentia - Muridae
Centralomys benericettii de Guili 1989 mouse
Apodemus atavus Eurasian field mouse
Apodemus gudrunae van de Weerd 1976 Eurasian field mouse
Occitanomys brailloni Michaux 1969 mouse
Micromys bendai van de Weerd 1979 harvest mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Muscardinus vireti Hugueney and Mein 1965 dormouse
Glis minor Kowalski 1963 dormouse
Glirulus lissiensis Hugueney and Mein 1965 Japanese dormouse
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton sp. Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo ex gr. viridis Laurenti 1768 European green toad
 Salientia - Hylidae
Hyla ex gr. arborea Linnaeus 1758 tree frog
 Salientia -
Latonia sp. von Meyer 1843 frog