Cetona, Provinz Siena, Coralline algal rudstone (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Provinz Siena, Italy (42.9° N, 11.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.0° N, 12.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcare Massiccio Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Early Mid-Pliocene in paper, Middle Pliocene in title

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified rudstone

• Calcare Massiccio, Coralline algal rudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Checconi, D. Bassi, L. Passeri and R. Rettori. 2007. Coralline red algal assemblage from the Middle Pliocene shallow-water temperate carbonates of the Monte Cetona (Northern Apennines, Italy). Facies (53)57-66 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 138092: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.01.2013, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Cladocora caespitosa Linne 1767 stony coral
small colonies
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanidae indet. Leach 1817 barnacle
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Sphaerogypsina sp. Galloway 1933
Foraminifera
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Asterigerinacea - Asterigerinidae
Asterigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
"Lithothamnion philippi" = Mesophyllum alterans Foslie 1907
"Lithophyllum pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum Lamouroux 1816
Lithophyllum dentatum Kützing 1841
Spongites "sp. 1" Kützing 1841