Monte Acuto, Fm Calcare Massiccio (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (43.3° N, 12.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 17.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcare Massiccio Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone

• Condensed hemipelagic deposits are present only as scattered and laterally

•discontinuous patches on the top area

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. Weis, N. Mariotti, and A. Cencio. 2015. Systematics and evolutionary implications of Early Jurassic belemnites from the Peri-Mediterranean Tethys. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 89:729-747 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176007: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.01.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Arietitidae
Arieticeras sp. Quenstedt 1882 ammonite
 Belemnitida -
Belemnopseina indet. Jeletzky 1965 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop