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Fig.17 - Premise and geological map of the Calabrian deposits cropping out in the Grammichele area at the fossiliferous site of Cata-
llarga (MALATESTA, 1960).
Premessa e carta geologica relativa al Calabriano nel territorio di Grammichele e la zona fossilifera di Catallarga (MALATESTA, 1960).

ancient than Pliocene, due to the presence of Pec- stropods, for each species the taxonomic position
ten planomedius and Chlamys pesfelis. (including synonymy), dimensions, and number of
the collected specimens are provided. Furthermore,
32. 1960 - MALATESTA A., “Malacofauna pleistocenica di for each species stratigraphical, ecological and pa-
Grammichele (Sicilia). Parte I”. (Fig. 17). laeogeographic information are given.
This monograph represents “the first outstanding
research” that A. Malatesta left to the paleontologi- 33. 1961 - JACOBACCI A., MALATESTA A. & MOTTA S.,
cal community. This study is of particular importance “Piano di studi nello stretto di Messina per il colle-
since it includes the richest Calabrian fauna known gamento della Sicilia con la Calabria. I Ricerche ge-
till then in Sicily. This first part is divided in 4 chap- ologiche”.
ters. In the first the composition of the fauna with the
list of the collected species, notes on their ecology, 34. 1962 - MALATESTA A., “Mediterranean Polyplacopho-
considerations on those species “survived” or de- ra, Cenozoic and Recent”.
rived from the Neogene Mediterranean fauna of In- A study about the origin and the diffusion of the
do-Pacific origin (about 12%), and information on present Mediterranean polyplacophoras is dis-
the new guests of extra-Mediterranean origin are cussed. For each of the 13 species represented in
described. The second chapter devotes different the Mediterranean Sea, the Author gives the de-
pages to the problems of the immigration of the At- scription of the morphological characteristics of the
lantic species in the Mediterranean, that occurred plates accompanied by schematic sketches and
during the glacial phases. In the third chapter, the maps with their distribution from the Neogene to
problem of the classification is discussed, particular- Present, in order to better clarify their origin and dif-
ly the difficulties to compare the examined fauna fusion from Cenozoic to Present. Lepidopleurus (Le-
with the species and the sub-species types. Finally, pidopleurus) cajetanus, Lepidopleurus (Lepidopleu-
in the fourth chapter devoted to the taxonomy of ga- rus) cancellatus, Hanleya hanleyi, Lepidochitona