Maiatico (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Emilia-Romagna, Italy (44.7° N, 10.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 44.0° N, 10.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Globorotalia crassaformis foram zone, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Russo. 1980. The psychrospheric coral fauna from the Lower Pliocene of northern Italy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 25:613-617 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 92186: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum vaticani Ponzi 1876 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae