Monte Spiado (Oligocene of Italy)

Where: Veneto, Italy (45.5° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Castelgomberto Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• marly limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. E. Reuss. 1868. Paläontologische Studien über die älteren Tertiärschichten der Alpen, 1: Die fossilen Anthozoen der Schichten von Castelgomberto [Paleontological studies about the older Tertiary beds in the Alps, 1: The fossil Anthozoa from the Castelcomberto Formation]. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 28:129-184 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91652: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.10.2009

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Taxonomic list

• corals only
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Phyllocoenia irradians" = Montastrea irradians
"Phyllocoenia irradians" = Montastrea irradians Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
"Plocophyllia flabellata" = Euphyllia caliculata, "Plocophyllia constricta" = Euphyllia caliculata
"Plocophyllia flabellata" = Euphyllia caliculata Catullo 1852 stony coral
"Plocophyllia constricta" = Euphyllia caliculata Catullo 1852 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Alveopora rudis Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Heliastrea lucasana" = Antiguastrea lucasiana, "? Ulophyllia acutijuga" = Oulophyllia
"Heliastrea lucasana" = Antiguastrea lucasiana Defrance 1826 stony coral
"? Ulophyllia acutijuga" = Oulophyllia stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites nummulitica Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Latimaeandra morchelloides" = Heterogyra lobata
"Latimaeandra morchelloides" = Heterogyra lobata Reuss 1868 stony coral