Santa Teresiola, Taranto: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cladocora caespitosa (Linne 1767)
Peirano et al. 2009
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778
Peirano et al. 2009
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758
Peirano et al. 2009
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Peirano et al. 2009
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cerastoderma sp. Mörch 1853
Peirano et al. 2009
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Apulia
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 17.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.5° North, 17.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: different U/Th datings and correlation with nearest deposits suggest that the reef
belongs to the MIS 5.5
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: The bank (or "open frame reef") is formed by numerous, contiguous colonies of coral embedded in a sandy matrix up to 1 m high covering a surface of nearly 0.6 km².
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:130581
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-07-10 17:01:00 Last modified:2016-02-19 06:15:55
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-07-10 17:01:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
58200. A. Peirano, C. Morri, C. N. Bianchi, J. Aguirre, F. Antonioli, C. Calzetta, L. Carobene, G. Mastronuzzi, and P. Orru. 2004. The Mediterranean coral Cladocora caespitosa: a proxy for past climate fluctuations?. Global and Planetary Change 40:195-200 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]

Secondary references:

42254 A. Peirano, P. Kruzic, and G. Mastronuzzi. 2009. Growth of Mediterranean reef of Cladocora caespitosa (L.) in the Late Quaternary and climate inferences. Facies 55:325-333 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]