Rio Torsero, Level 2, Liguria (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (44.1° N, 8.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 43.2° N, 9.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ortovero Clay Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

• deep circalittoral zone, close to the shelf edge
• light grey very sandy clayey silt

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. P. Bernasconi and E. Robba. 1994. Notes on some Pliocene gastropods from Rio Torsero, Western Liguria, Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 100(1):71-102 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73579: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsis "sp. 1", "Cerithiopsidella sp." = Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella), Retilaskeya sp.
Cerithiopsis "sp. 1" Hanley 1849 snail
"Cerithiopsidella sp." = Cerithiopsis (Cerithiopsidella) Bartsch 1911 snail
Retilaskeya sp. Marshall 1978 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Triphoridae
Metaxia abrupta
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Pusillina (Pusillina) sulzeriana, Pusillina (Pusillina) sp., Alvania (Alvania) testae, Alvania (Alvania) thalia, Alvania (Alvania) tiberiana, Alvania (Alvania) obliquistoma
Pusillina (Pusillina) sp. Monterosato 1884 snail