Also known as Reef 3904

Where: Calabria, Italy (39.6° N, 16.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• basal unit II, Gephyrocapsa sp. 3 zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone and lithified, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. P. Bernasconi, C. Corselli, and L. Carobene. 1997. A bank of scleractinian coral Cladocora caespitosa in the Pleistocene of the Crati valley (Calabria, southern Italy): growth versus environmental conditions. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 36:53-61 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85065: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2008

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