Road Collesano-Piano di Battaglia, Sicily, Italy (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Sicily, Italy (37.9° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.2° N, 11.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Panormide Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Norian to Rhaetian age in text, according to Flügel 2002 of Norian age

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Senowbari-Daryan and P. Schäfer. 1986. Sphinctozoen (Kalkschwämme) aus den norischen Riffen von Sizilien. Facies 14:235-284 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38318: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 20.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

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 - Sebargasiidae
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
"Cryptocoelia siciliana n. sp." = Guangxispongia siciliana
"Cryptocoelia siciliana n. sp." = Guangxispongia siciliana Senowbari-Daryan 1990 demosponge
C. sp.1
 Verticillitida - Verticillitidae