Via Siesa, Castelnuovo of Teolo (Eocene of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.3° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Turborotalia cunialensis/Cribrohantkenina inflata foram zone, Marna Euganea Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• This association clearly suggests correlation with the Turborotalia cunialensis/Cribrohantkenina inflata Concurrent Range Zone (P 16) of the plankton biostratigraphic scale introduced by Berggren et al. (1995) and particularly the Cribrohantkenina lazzarii/Cribrohantkenina inflata Concurrent Range Subzone proposed by Coccioni et al. (1988). which both indicate a late Priabonian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, yellow marl

• The sediment is represented essentially by greyish-yellow marl altogether similar to that which is widespread across the entire Euganean region (=Marna Euganea Formation, Early Eocene-Early Oligocene age) above the Scaglia Rossa Formation (Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene age). In some beds angular palagonitized glassy lava debris is mixed up with the marl. This material (hyaloclasts) derived from the progressive breaking up of the skin of the pillows during their development and growth, accords well with the mechanism suggested by Rittmann (1958). Basalt pillows and hyaloclasts formed a rocky substrate.

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Bitner, Dieni

• Specimens obtained by processing bulk samples (total amount 3 kg) of sediment

•surrounding the basaltic pillows. The process, consisting of disaggregation, washing and screening followed by picking under the microscope.

•Repository: Museo di Geologia e Palentologia dell'Universita di Padova (MGPD)

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner and I. Dieni. 2005. Late Eocene brachiopods from the Euganean Hills (NE Italy). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 98:103-111 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152502: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 24.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
 Thecideida - Thecideidae
Lacazella mediterranea Risso 1826
material also includes several fragments
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina cf. tenuistriata Leymerie 1846
material also includes several fragments
 Terebratulida - Chlidonophoridae
Orthothyris pectinoides von Koenen 1894
material also includes several fragments
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
"Terebratula" italica n. sp. Bitner and Dieni 2005
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Venetocrania euganea n. sp. Bitner and Dieni 2005
dorsal valves