Where: Italy (43.9° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Lower Messinian, Upper Miocene, base of the unit “Bituminous Marls”, 10 m below the level “Strato degli insetti”, in which more than 90% of all fossil dragonflies of Monte Castellaro have been discovered. Its age may be several thousand years older than that of other dragonflies from the same deposit.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: A. Nel, J. F. Petrulevicius, G. Gentilini and X. Martinez-Delclos. 2005. Phylogenetic analysis of the Cenozoic family Sieblosiidae (Insecta: Odonata), with description of new taxa from Russia, Italy and France. Geobios 38:219-233 [M. Clapham/J. Karr] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105570: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 22.02.2011

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