Marsica region, Ellipsactinia Limestones,Stromatopores Unit (Jurassic to of Italy)

Where: Italy (41.8° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 18.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ellipsactinia Limestones Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• largely dominated by stromatopores, which are present as isolated specimens or as densely packed mound-shaped structures. Corals are very rare and for the most represented by small isolated corals or solitary morphologies. These organisms are dispersed within a bio-lithoclastic sediment.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Rusciadelli, C. Ricci, and B. Lathuilière. 2011. The Ellipsactinia Limestones of the Marsica area (Central Apennines): A reference zonation model for Upper Jurassic Intra-Tethys reef complexes. Sedimentary Geology 233:69-87 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154048: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Lithocodium aggregatum
  -
Lithocodium aggregatum
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
cf. Dermosmilia sp.
cf. Dermosmilia sp. Koby 1884 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
"Fromentelligyra sp." = Rhipidogyra
"Fromentelligyra sp." = Rhipidogyra Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Thaumatoporellales -
Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera
Tubiphytes morronensis
  -
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis Crescenti 1969
Wetheredellidae
  - Wetheredellidae
Koskinobullina socialis
Koskinobullina socialis Cherchi and Schroeder 1979