Where: Italy (45.6° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 10.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Larger foram fauna contains Nummulites bolcensis and N. spileccensis, correlating to benthic zone SBZ7 or lower Ypresian, in good agreement with the nannoplankton zone NP 10 and the planktonic foraminifera zone P 5. Orthophragminid fauna is a key association for OZ3 zone, also lower Ypresian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, tuffaceous, red limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1959. Genera of Tertiary and Recent rhynchonelloid brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 130(5):1-90 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187481: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Erymnaria bolcensis Massalongo 1850
Erymnaria polymorpha Massalongo 1850 |