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=== Pesciara === The Pesciara site of Monte Bolca is made up of a sheet-like limestone in the form of an olistolith which has an area of a few hundred square meters and is under 20 m thick. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Trevisani |first=Enrico |last2=Papazzoni |first2=Cesare Andrea |last3=Ragazzi |first3=Eugenio |last4=Roghi |first4=Guido |date=August 2005 |title=Early Eocene amber from the “Pesciara di Bolca” (Lessini Mountains, Northern Italy) |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.04.008 |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=223 |issue=3-4 |pages=260–274 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.04.008 |issn=0031-0182|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Throughout this bed, there are both reef and alveoline limestones which are medium-fine grained. The different limestone beds alternate between the fossiliferous laminites and more course-grained biocalcarenites and biocalcirudites. These more course layers are a lot less fossiliferous though still contain fossils such as foraminifera and mollusks. Most fossils within the Persciara site have been found within five of the levels with the 1st, 2nd, and 5th levels being the most productive. However, due to being completely excavated over the last four centuries, the 5th level is no longer accessible. <ref name=":02">{{Cite journal |last=Pasini |first=Giovanni |last2=Garassino |first2=Alessandro |last3=De Angeli |first3=Antonio |last4=Hyžný |first4=Matúš |last5=Giusberti |first5=Luca |last6=Zorzin |first6=Roberto |date=2019-09-25 |title=Eocene decapod faunas from the Konservat-Lagerstätten laminites of “Pesciara” (Bolca, Verona) and Monte Postale (Altissimo, Vicenza) in northeast Italy: a review and update |url=https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2019/0840 |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=293 |issue=3 |pages=233–270 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2019/0840 |issn=0077-7749}}</ref> Towards the south-east of the deposit, the limestone layers dip at a 24° angle which suggests that the beds slid towards the north-west when they were more plastic. Volcanoclastic rock surrounds the limestone beds and due to this isolation, there has been trouble in understanding the relationship between the Pesciara and Monte Postale sites.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dal Degan |first=Davide |last2=Barbieri |first2=Simone |date=2005 |title=Rilievo geologico dell'area di Bolca (Monti Lessini orientali) Geological survey of the Bolca area (Eastern Lessini Mountains) |journal=Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia Naturale di Verona |volume=27}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> Due to the foraminifera and other fossils found at the site, Pesciara has been assigned to the late Ypresian.<ref name=":02" />
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