Where: Italy (38.7° N, 15.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• upper Tortonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

Primary reference: G. Carone and D. P. Domning. 2007. Metaxytherium serresii (Mammalia: Sirenia): new pre-Pliocene record, and implicaitons for Mediterranean paleoecology before and after the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 46(1):55-92 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80397: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.04.2008