Monti della Maddalena, Apennines (Triassic to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 3608

Where: Italy (40.4° N, 15.6° E: paleocoordinates 19.9° N, 14.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified rudstone and lithified floatstone

• buildups at the margin of a carbonate platform facing a deep basin having good connection with the open sea
• bioclastic rudstone, floatstone and possibly boundstone from the destruction of nearby small buildups

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. Iannace and V. Zamparelli. 2002. Upper Triassic platform margin biofacies and the paleogeography of Southern Apennines. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 179:1-18 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73880: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.07.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
  -
Goellipora triasica
Foraminifera
  -
Ophthalmidium cf. triadicum
 Textulariina - Coscinophragmatidae
Alpinophragmium perforatum
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
Agglutisolena conica, Kaeveria fluegeli
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
"Sigmoilina" schaeferae
 Miliolida - Siphonoferidae
Siphonofera pilleri
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Margarophylliidae
Margarosmilia cf. richthofeni
Margarosmilia cf. richthofeni Volz 1896 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pamiroseriidae
? Pamiroseris sp.
? Pamiroseris sp. Melnikova 1971 stony coral
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
Peronidella sp.
Peronidella sp. Hinde 1893 calcareous sponge
listed as Perodinella
Disjectopora
  - Disjectoporidae
? Disjectopora sp.
? Disjectopora sp. Waagen and Wentzel 1888
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
? Uvanella tegimentopora, ? Paravesicocaulis sp.
? Uvanella tegimentopora Senowbari-Daryan and Schäfer 1986 demosponge
? Paravesicocaulis sp. Kovacs 1978 demosponge
listed as Paravesicocaulus? sp.
 Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Paradeningeria sp.
Paradeningeria sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Schäfer 1979 demosponge
 Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
? Amblysiphonella sp.
? Amblysiphonella sp. Steinmann 1882 demosponge
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
? Chaetetidae indet.
? Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Radiomura
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Radiomura cautica
Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
Shamovella
  -
""Tubiphytes" obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
""Tubiphytes" obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
unclassified
  -
Echinodermata indet.
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Polychaeta
  -
Microtubus communis
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella ordinata, Bacinella sp.
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959