Monte Genuardo reef, Sicily, Italy (Triassic to of Italy)

Where: Sicily, Italy (37.7° N, 13.2° E: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 11.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Sponge-tabulozoan boundstone most widespread lithofacies; in western sector rudstones prevail. Intrabiolithitic cavities filled by skeletal grainstone-packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with dolomite

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section

Primary reference: P. Di Stefano, M. Gullo, and B. Senowbari-Daryan. 1990. The Upper Triassic Reef of Monte Genuardo (Southwestern Sicily). Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana 109:103-114 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 38061: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 06.04.2004, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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 Thaumatoporellales -
Foraminifera
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Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
Foliotortus spinosus Senowbari-Daryan 1980
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
 Lagenina - Ichthyolariidae
 Textulariina - Coscinophragmatidae
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
 Miliolida - Ophthalmidiidae
 Miliolida - Siphonoferidae
 Miliolida - Miliolechinidae
Foraminifera
  -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia sp. Cuif 1966 stony coral
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
Peronidella sp. Hinde 1893 calcareous sponge
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
? Uvanella tegimentopora Senowbari-Daryan and Schäfer 1986 demosponge
"Follicatena irregularis" = Uvanella norica Senowbari-Daryan 1990 demosponge
Paravesicocaulis multiosculatus Senowbari-Daryan 1980 demosponge
 Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Solenolmia sp., "Panormida priscae" = Panormida gautretae1
Solenolmia sp. Pomel 1872 demosponge
Solenolmia sp.1
"Panormida priscae" = Panormida gautretae1 Senowbari-Daryan 1990 demosponge
 Agelasida - Preperonidellidae
Precorynella sp. Dieci et al. 1968 demosponge
 Agelasida - Parastylothalamiidae
Parastylothalamia "sp.1"2 Senowbari-Daryan and Link 2011 demosponge
Parastylothalamia conica n. sp.2 Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2015 demosponge
 Agelasida - Cryptocoeliidae
? Cryptocoelia cf. wurmi Senowbari-Daryan and Dullo 1980 demosponge
 Verticillitida - Cribrothalamiidae
Cribrothalamia gulloae n. gen. n. sp.1
Cribrothalamia gulloae n. gen. n. sp.1 Senowbari-Daryan 1990 demosponge
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
"Cryptocoelia siciliana n. sp." = Guangxispongia siciliana1
"Cryptocoelia siciliana n. sp." = Guangxispongia siciliana1 Senowbari-Daryan 1990 demosponge
?Cryptocoelia sp. 1
 Verticillitida - Cheilosporitiidae
Cheilosporites tirolensis Wähner 1903 demosponge
Radiomura
  -
Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
unclassified
  -
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"? Pycnoporidium eomesozoicum" = Gosaukammerella eomesozoica
"? Pycnoporidium eomesozoicum" = Gosaukammerella eomesozoica Flügel 1972
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
  -
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Paraeolisaccus endococcus
  -
Paraeolisaccus endococcus Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1980
Actinotubella gusici
  -
Actinotubella gusici Senowbari-Daryan 1984