Tarsia, Crati Valley: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Cladocora caespitosa
(Linne 1767)
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Gastropoda
- Trochidae
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Cantharidus exasperatus
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Gibbula magus
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Gastropoda
- Campanilidae
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Cerithium vulgatum
Bruguière 1789
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recombined as Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Cantharus dorbigny
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Nassarius incrassatus
(Müller 1773)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Fasciolaria lignaria
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Mitrella sp.
Risso 1826
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Gastropoda
- Rissoidae
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Turbona cimex
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spelled with current rank as Alvania (Turbona) | |||||||
Rissoina bruguieri
(Payraudeau 1826)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys sp.
Röding 1798
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Mimachlamys varia
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spelled with current rank as Chlamys (Mimachlamys) | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama gryphoides
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Venus casina
Linnaeus 1758
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recombined as Dosina cassina | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula nucleus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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recombined as Nucula (Nucula) nucleus | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Italy | State/province: | Calabria | County: | Cosenza |
Coordinates: | 39.6° North, 16.3° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.5° North, 16.2° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: basal unit II, Gephyrocapsa sp. 3 zone |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
Secondary lithology: | lithified silty sandstone |
Lithology description: coral bank (max. 5 m thick) interbedded in silty sands | |
Environment: | perireef or subreef |
Geology comments: very quiet environment with low to absent water movement and low light intensity |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Reef 3904 | ||
Database number: | 85065 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2008-11-25 02:27:01 | Last modified: | 2009-01-08 15:31:00 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-01-08 10:39:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
28572. | M. P. Bernasconi, C. Corselli, and L. Carobene. 1997. A bank of scleractinian coral Cladocora caespitosa in the Pleistocene of the Crati valley (Calabria, southern Italy): growth versus environmental conditions. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 36:53-61 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |