Golfo della Serra, Calabria, Italy (Triassic to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 3324

Where: Northern Calabria, Italy (39.2° N, 16.0° E: paleocoordinates 21.0° N, 12.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• studied boulder found in "Verbicario Unit", transported?

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified dolomite

• surrounding valley: recrystallized, well-bedded limestones overlain by massive, often cataclastic dolomites

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with dolomite

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: B. Senowbari-Daryan and V. Zamparelli. 1999. Upper Triassic Sphinctozoan sponges from Northern Calabria (Southern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 105(1):145-154 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38014: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 31.03.2004, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet.
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
Kaeveria sp.
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Aulotortus sp.
Aulotortus sp. Weynschenk 1956
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Planiinvoluta sp.
Foraminifera
  -
Ophthalmidium sp.
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
Polychaeta
  -
Microtubus communis
 Pharetronida -
Inozoa indet.
Inozoa indet. Steinmann 1882
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
? Uvanella tegimentopora
? Uvanella tegimentopora Senowbari-Daryan and Schäfer 1986 demosponge
 Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Deningeria iannacei n. sp., ? Paradeningeria sp.
Deningeria iannacei n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Zamparelli 1999 demosponge
? Paradeningeria sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Schäfer 1979 demosponge
 Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
Amblysiphonella sp., Calabrisiphonella labyrinthica n. gen. n. sp.
Amblysiphonella sp. Steinmann 1882 demosponge
Calabrisiphonella labyrinthica n. gen. n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Zamparelli 2003 demosponge
 Agelasida - Cryptocoeliidae
Calabrispongia globosa n. gen. n. sp.
Calabrispongia globosa n. gen. n. sp. demosponge
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Colospongia sp.
Colospongia sp. Laube 1865 demosponge