Details for Fossil shells
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| Collection data |
| Name | Fossil shells |
| Alternative name | Paleontological collection |
| Description | A collection of fossil shells |
| Description for specialists | General collection of about 25000 fossil shells exposed in 52 drawers, collected in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century with some specimens from the 'Settepassi' collection. Unidentified material, sorted only to major groups, with specimens of the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene. The status of the conservation is problematic, either for physical curation or for potential information loss (for example unlabeled specimens in the general collection) |
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| Provenance | |
| Notes | |
| Primary grouping principle | Taxonomic |
| Primary purpose | Research |
| Part of collection | |
| Related collection(s) | |
| Known to contain types | Not known to contain types |
| Rights |
| Rights | The materials are property of the Municipality of Rome |
| Access rights | The collection is freely available for scientific research, under the regulations set up by the managerial staff |
| Usage restrictions | Destructive or invasive assays are normally prohibited or must be previously agreed with the managerial staff. Uses other than for scientific research (e.g. extensive taking of pictures for commercial use) are subject to written contracts |
| Collection types |
| Fossils, Taxonomic |
| McGinley conservation statuses |
| Level 2 |
Unidentified material, sorted only to major (usually suprageneric) groups and effectively inaccessible to the research community. |
| Level 3 |
Unidentified material, sorted to "Loanable units" (usually genus, but variable depending on group) and accessible to the research community. For most groups of Diptera, this was material sorted to family level. |
| Date |
14-05-2010 (dd-mm-yyyy) |
| Development status |
| Closed |
| Expeditions |
| no expedition |
| Formation periods |
| First half of the twentieth century |
| Collection extents |
| 25000 specimens |
| Kingdom coverage |
| Animalia |
| Taxon coverage |
| Phylum Mollusca |
| Common name coverage |
| Collection of fossil shells |
| Geospatial coverage |
| Italy (strength) |
| Living time periods |
| Late Miocene - Early Pliocene |
| Specimen preservation methods |
| No Treatment |
| Media |
| 52 drawers and 20 boxes still to sort |
| File formats |
| unapplicable |
| Item level access |
| Source: not available |
| Related material |
| Durante S. e Settepassi F., 1972. I molluschi del giacimento quaternario della Grotta della Madonna a Praia a Mare (Calabria). Quaternaria, 16: 255-269., Durante S., 1974. Brevi cenni sulla evoluzione del Mediterraneo e della sua malacofauna. In: "I Molluschi marini viventi nel Mediterraneo". Museo Zool. Comune Roma, 2:2-5., Durante S., 1974. Il Tirreniano e la malacofauna della Grotta del Fossellone (Circeo). Quaternaria XVIII: 331-344. |