Catallarga outcrop (Pleistocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (37.4° N, 14.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 14.9° 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 146293: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986
unclassified
  -
Cyanobacteria indet. Stanier 1973
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Astroides calycularis Pallas 1766 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
Gastropoda
 Pteropoda - Clionidae
Clionidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata -
 Cyclostomata - Tubuliporidae
 Cyclostomata - Plagioeciidae
 Cyclostomata - Lichenoporidae
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
 Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
 Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
Fenestrulina malusii Audouin 1826
 Cheilostomata - Cheiloporinidae
 Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
 Cheilostomata - Chorizoporidae
 Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
 Cheilostomata - Microporidae
 Cheilostomata - Cribrilinidae