Fluminimaggiore Fm. Nautiloids, bohemica Zone, SW Sardinia (Silurian to of Italy)

Also known as Nautiloid assemblage A (Pseudocycloceras transiens-Columenoceras grande), upper part

Where: Sardinia, Italy (39.3° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 63.9° S, 56.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: bohemica bohemica zone, Fluminimaggiore Formation, Homerian to Homerian (430.5 - 425.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• "dark limestones and gray bioclastic limestones"

Primary reference: M. Gnoli and E. Serpagli. 1991. Nautiloid assemblages from middle-late Silurian of southwestern Sardinia: a proposal. Bolletino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 30(2):187-195 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26167: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 07.10.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Nautiloids only.
Cephalopoda
 Lituitida - Sphooceratidae
Sphooceras truncatum Barrande 1860
 Dissidocerida - Geisonoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras michelini Barrande 1866
"Arionoceras submoniliforme" = Orthoceras submoniliforme Meneghini 1857
 Orthocerida - Sphaerorthoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Arionoceratidae
"Arionoceras affine" = Arionoceras canonicum Meneghini 1843