Where: Italy (44.5° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 10.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified marl
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 70498: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"? Amphihelia profunda" = Madrepora profunda
"? Amphihelia profunda" = Madrepora profunda Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica Michelotti 1838 stony coral
Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) patera Montanaro 1933 stony coral | |
Flabellum avicula Michelotti 1838 stony coral
? Flabellum zuffardii Chevalier 1961 stony coral
? Flabellum siciliense Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) verrucosus, Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) laterocristatus, Trochocyathus (Aplocyathus) armatus, Trochocyathus plicatus
Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) verrucosus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) laterocristatus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Trochocyathus (Aplocyathus) armatus Michelotti 1838 stony coral |