Mossano village, Orthophragminid rudstone facies (Eocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.4° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; rudstone

• The rudstones are made up of densely-packed, poorly sorted, stacked larger foraminiferal tests. Locally small-to-medium scale trough crossbedding is present. The abundant interskeletal shelter cavities and the intraskeletal ones were rarely and partially filled by micrite. The remaining voids were fringed by spar and filled by blocky calcite.
• Orthophragminid rudstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. Bassi. 2005. The Upper Eocene crustose coralline algal pavement in the Colli Berici, north-eastern Italy. 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 147798: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Lithothamnion sp., Mesophyllum sp.
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Nemkovella
  -
Nemkovella strophiolata
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Discocyclinidae
Discocyclina spp., Asterocyclina alticostata
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Assilina alpina, Spiroclypeus granulosus, Heterostegina reticulata, Nummulites sp.
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801
  - Camerinidae
Pellatispira madaraszi
unclassified
  -
Echinodermata indet.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet.
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral