G1700, San Licandro: Gelasian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Frieleiidae
Sphenarina sicula (Davidson 1870)
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Gryphus sphenoideus (Philippi 1844)
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 38.2° North, 15.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.1° North, 15.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Gelasian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Gelasian
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Pliocene by analogy with the same facies at other localities." If that is the case, then the locality is presumably Gelasian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,yellow lithified marl
Lithology description: Lithified based on equivalent outcrops on Sicily.
Environment:basinal (carbonate)
Geology comments: Bathyal localities
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Istituto di Geologie e di Paleontologia dell'Universita di Messina
Metadata
Database number:187511
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-07-31 19:41:06 Last modified:2017-07-31 19:41:06
Access level:the public Released:2017-07-31 19:41:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62909. M. Gaetani and D. Sacca. 1984. Brachiopodi batiali nel Pliocene e Pleistocene di Silicia e Calabria. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 90:407-458 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]