Where: Italy (37.5° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 13.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Late Jurassic in text; more recent publications report the presence of Sinemurian in the area of Montagna di Casale; placed in Sinemurian by enterer to avoid stratigraphic orphaning. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, white limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Pisa Museum, Italy.

Primary reference: A. G. Smith. 1973. Fossil chitons from the Mesozoic - A checklist and bibliography. Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences 103:1-30 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91197: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.09.2009

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