bed 37 Colle Tordina section (Italy) (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Ancona, Italy (43.8° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 30.6° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: superiore Member (Bugarone Formation), Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• Volanense/Ponti Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, white limestone

• Pelagic carbonate swell

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Repository: APAT - Agenzia per la Protezione dell'Ambiente e per i Servizi Tecnici. Collezioni Paleontologiche. Roma

•Museo di Paleontologia. Università "La Sapienza" Roma.

Primary reference: F. Cecca, S. Cresta, G. Pallini and M. Santantonio. 1986. Biostratigrafia ed ammoniti del Dogger-Malm di Colle Tordina (Monti della Rossa, Appennino marchigiano). Bollettino del Servizio Geologico d'Italia 104:177-204 [F. Cecca/F. Cecca/F. Cecca]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46540: authorized by Fabrizio Cecca, entered by Fabrizio Cecca on 19.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

• The abundant phylloceratids and lytoceratids were not determined
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
? Aulacosphinctes cf. rectefurcatus
 Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
? Lemencia sp.
? Lemencia sp. Donze and Enay 1961 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Simoceratidae
Simoceras (Volanoceras) vicentinum, Simoceras (Volanoceras) volanense, Lytogyroceras strictum, Lytogyroceras subbeticum
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Simocosmoceras aff. adversum