Rio Torsero, Level 4, Liguria (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (44.1° N, 8.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 43.4° N, 8.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ortovero Clay Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 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 73585: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Alvania (Alvania) testae