Megara section (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (37.3° N, 15.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

• coarse-grained sediments (sands or gravelly sands extremely rich in centimetre-sized bioclasts); deposition on mid-shelf current-swept soft bottoms, during cold phases of the Early Pleistocene

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Rosso and R. Sanfilippo. 2005. Bryozoans and serpuloideans in skeletobiont communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily: spatial utilisation and competitive interactions. Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Ferrara Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146292: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle
Gastropoda
 Pteropoda - Clionidae
Clionidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail
Stenolaemata
 Tubuliporata -
"Cyclostomata indet." = Tubuliporata
"Cyclostomata indet." = Tubuliporata
 Tubuliporata - Lichenoporidae
 Tubuliporata - Tubuliporidae
 Tubuliporata - Plagioeciidae
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Aeteidae
 Cheilostomata - Cribrilinidae
 Cheilostomata - Microporidae
Calpensia nobilis Esper 1796
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
 Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
 Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
 Cheilostomata - Chorizoporidae
 Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
 Cheilostomata - Lanceoporidae
Calyptotheca sp. Harmer 1957
 Cheilostomata - Cheiloporinidae
 Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
Fenestrulina malusii Audouin 1826
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
unclassified
  -
Cyanobacteria indet. Stanier 1973
Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986