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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Phyllocoenia irradians" = Montastrea irradians
"Phyllocoenia irradians" = Montastrea irradians Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Plocophyllia flabellata" = Euphyllia caliculata, "Plocophyllia constricta" = Euphyllia caliculata
"Plocophyllia flabellata" = Euphyllia caliculata Catullo 1852 stony coral
"Plocophyllia constricta" = Euphyllia caliculata Catullo 1852 stony coral | |
Alveopora rudis Reuss 1864 stony coral | |
"Heliastrea lucasana" = Antiguastrea lucasiana, "? Ulophyllia acutijuga" = Oulophyllia
"Heliastrea lucasana" = Antiguastrea lucasiana Defrance 1826 stony coral
"? Ulophyllia acutijuga" = Oulophyllia stony coral | |
Porites nummulitica Reuss 1864 stony coral | |
"Latimaeandra morchelloides" = Heterogyra lobata
"Latimaeandra morchelloides" = Heterogyra lobata Reuss 1868 stony coral |