Also known as Reef 1994
Where: Italy (38.3° N, 15.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 15.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Upper Tortonian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70492: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
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Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel | |
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Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
| Anthozoa | |
Tarbellastraea sp., "Tarbellastraea reussiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana, "Tarbellastraea cf. prevostiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana, "Goniastraea sp." = Goniastrea
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
"Tarbellastraea reussiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
"Tarbellastraea cf. prevostiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
"Goniastraea sp." = Goniastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
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Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
| Florideophyceae | |
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Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897 | |