Tarsia, Crati Valley: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cladocora caespitosa (Linne 1767)
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Cantharidus exasperatus
Gibbula magus
Gastropoda - Campanilidae
Cerithium vulgatum Bruguière 1789
recombined as Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus dorbigny
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius incrassatus (Müller 1773)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fasciolaria lignaria
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Mitrella sp. Risso 1826
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Turbona cimex
spelled with current rank as Alvania (Turbona)
Rissoina bruguieri (Payraudeau 1826)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798
Mimachlamys varia
spelled with current rank as Chlamys (Mimachlamys)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama gryphoides Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus casina Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Dosina cassina
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula nucleus (Linnaeus 1758)
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]