Cascine, Acqui area, Piemont (Oligocene of Italy)

Also known as Reef 883

Where: Italy (44.5° N, 8.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Pfister. 1980. Paläoökologie des oligozänen Korallenvorkommens von Cascine südlich Acqui (Piemont, Norditalien) [Paleoecology of the Oligocene coral fauna from Cascine south of Acqui (Piemont, Italy)]. Jahrbuch des Naturhistorischen Museums Bern 7:247-262 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69702: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Hydrozoa
 Milleporina -
Millepora sp. fire coral
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora thirsiformis Michelotti 1847 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora haidingeri Reuss 1864 stony coral
Alveopora rudis Reuss 1864 stony coral
Astreopora meneghiniana d'Achiardi 1866 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Porites nummulitica Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia subdenticulata Catullo 1856 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Caulastrea pseudoflabellum Catullo 1852 stony coral
Antiguastrea lucasiana Defrance 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
"Diploria crebriformis" = Variabilifavia confertissima
"Diploria crebriformis" = Variabilifavia confertissima Reuss 1868 stony coral
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843