Pietra di Salomone megablock, USNM collection, Sosio Valley, Sicily (Permian of Italy)

Where: Italy (37.7° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified reef rocks and lithified rudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. H. Mapes, S. Niko, J. Fryda and A. Nützel. 2007. A newly hatched coiled nautiloid from the Permian of Italy. Journal of Paleontology 81:1118-1121 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112952: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Disparida - Allagecrinidae
Metallagecrinus palermoensis n. sp.5 Strimple and Sevastopulo 1982 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Heterelasminidae
"Jisuina lepton" = Mimaria lepton4, "Jisuina genuflexa" = Heterelasmina genuflexa4
"Jisuina lepton" = Mimaria lepton4 Gemmellaro 1899
"Jisuina genuflexa" = Heterelasmina genuflexa4 Gemmellaro 1899
 Terebratulida - Notothyrididae
Rostranteris inflatum4 Gemmellaro 1899
Chileata
 Dictyonellida - Isogrammidae
Megapleuronia grecoi n. gen. n. sp.1 Cooper 1952
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Rhiphaeoceratidae
Sholakoceras cf. pleuronautiloides Gemmellaro 1889 nautiloid
 Goniatitida - Pseudohaloritidae
Sosioceras pygmaeum2 Gemmellaro 1888 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Epiglyphioceras meneghinii3 Gemmellaro 1887 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Adrianitidae
Adrianites isomorphus5 Gemmellaro 1888 ammonite