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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986 | |
unclassified | |
Cyanobacteria indet. Stanier 1973 | |
Anthozoa | |
Astroides calycularis Pallas 1766 stony coral | |
Caryophyllia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Gastropoda | |
Clionidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 snail | |
Sedentaria | |
Serpulidae spp. Rafinesque 1835
Filograna sp. Oken 1815 | |
Polychaeta | |
Stenolaemata | |
Cyclostomata indet. Busk 1852 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Microporella ciliata Pallas 1766
Fenestrulina malusii Audouin 1826 | |
Calpensia nobilis Esper 1796 | |