Also known as Reef 3113
Where: Italy (38.7° N, 16.1° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 36.6° N, 17.1° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• 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 70493: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2007
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Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster acuminatus reidii sand dollar | |
Foraminifera | |
Gastropoda | |
Haliotis cf. subcirculata abalone | |
Bivalvia | |
Lithophaga cf. lithophaga Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
"Chlamys multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata, Chlamys elegans, "Chlamys scabrella" = Chlamys scabrellus
"Chlamys multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata Poli 1795 scallop
Chlamys elegans scallop
"Chlamys scabrella" = Chlamys scabrellus Lamarck 1819 scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinolampas deshayesi sea urchin | |
Anthozoa | |
? Favia cf. centralis stony coral | |
Favites sp., Tarbellastraea sp., "Tarbellastraea reussiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana, "Tarbellastraea prevostiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
"Tarbellastraea reussiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
"Tarbellastraea prevostiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
Porites sp., Porites calabricae n. sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites calabricae n. sp. Chevalier 1961 stony coral |