Also known as Reef 965

Where: Italy (43.5° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 10.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Castelnuovo Member (Rosignano Limestone Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70417: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.03.2007

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