Also known as Reef 3113
Where: Italy (38.7° N, 16.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 15.8° E)
• 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 70494: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897 | |
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster sp. Lamarck 1801 sand dollar | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
"Tarbellastraea reussiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana, "Tarbellastraea prevostiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana
"Tarbellastraea reussiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
"Tarbellastraea prevostiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
Solenastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Heliastrea sp. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Porites calabricae Chevalier 1961 stony coral |