Scanelle quarry, rudstones, Calbria, Italy: Tortonian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Stylasterinidae indet.
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common category | |||||||||
| stylasterine hydrozoans | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Oculinidae
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Oculina sp.
Gray 1847
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abundant category | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Dendrophyllia sp.
Blainville 1830
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abundant category | |||||||||
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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rare category | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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rare category | |||||||||
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Nodosariata
- Vaginulinida
- Vaginulinidae
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Lenticulina sp.
Lamarck 1804
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Planorbulinidae
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Planorbulina sp.
d'Orbigny 1826
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unclassified
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Victoriella cf. conoidea
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Geography
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: | 39.2° North, 16.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.9° North, 15.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Miocene |
| *International age/stage: | Middle Tortonian - Late/Upper Tortonian | ||
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Clacare di Mendicino |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified rudstone |
| Lithology description: 0.53 m thick bank overlying floatstones | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3204 | ||
| Database number: | 27550 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-12-11 10:52:17 | Last modified: | 2002-12-11 12:53:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-12-11 10:52:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7596. | A. Mastandrea, F. Muto, C. Neri, C.A. Papazzoni, E. Perri and F. Russo. 2002. Deep-water coral banks: an example from the "Calcare di Mendicino" (Upper Miocene, Northern Calabria, Italy). Facies 47:27-42 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |