Where: Calabria, Italy (40.0° N, 16.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 14.1° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Palizzi Formation), Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• from a 5 cm-thick marl
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and marl
environment is said to be neritic marine based on this fauna
Turritella material consists of internal molds
Collection methods: lists for forams and ostracods end with "etc."
Primary reference: J. -P. Bouillin, C. Majeste-Menjoulas, M.-F. Ollivier-Pierre, Y. Tambareau, and J. Villatte. 1985. Transgression de l''Oligocene inferieur (formation de Palizzi) sur un karst a remplissage dans les zones internes calabro-peloritaines (Italie). Comptes Rendus de l''Academie des Sciences, Serie II 301(6):415-420 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9117: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 22.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Foraminifera | |
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862 | |
Globothalamea | |
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
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Sphaerogypsina globula Reuss 1848 | |
Anthozoa | |
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Ostracoda | |
Schuleridea sp. Swartz and Swain 1946 ostracod | |
? Cnestocythere sp. ostracod | |
Pokornyella cf. amygdaliformis ostracod
Hermanites sp. Puri 1955 ostracod
Quadracythere sp. Hornibrook 1952 ostracod | |
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod | |
Brachiopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Turritella cf. strangulata" = Turritella (Peyrotia) strangulata
"Turritella cf. strangulata" = Turritella (Peyrotia) strangulata Grateloup 1847 turret shell |