Golfo della Serra, Calabria, Italy: Norian - Rhaetian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Poriferitubus buseri
Senowbari-Daryan and Zamparelli 2003
listed as Porpheritubus buseri
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
Ataxophragmiidae
Kaeveria sp.
Involutinidae
Aulotortus sp. Weynschenk 1956
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Planiinvoluta sp.
unclassified
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
Polychaeta
Microtubus communis
Pharetronida
Inozoa indet. Steinmann 1882
Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
? Uvanella tegimentopora Senowbari-Daryan and Schäfer 1986
Senowbari-Daryan and Zamparelli 2003
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Deningeria iannacei n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Zamparelli 1999
numerous specimens
? Paradeningeria sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Schäfer 1979
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
Amblysiphonella sp. Steinmann 1882
Calabrisiphonella labyrinthica n. gen., n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Zamparelli 2003
Senowbari-Daryan and Zamparelli 2003
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Cryptocoeliidae
Calabrispongia globosa n. gen., n. sp.
Senowbari-Daryan and Zamparelli 2003
Demospongiae - Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Colospongia sp. Laube 1865
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Northern Calabria
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 16.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.0° North, 12.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian - Rhaetian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: studied boulder found in "Verbicario Unit", transported?
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified dolomite
Lithology description: surrounding valley: recrystallized, well-bedded limestones overlain by massive, often cataclastic dolomites
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,recrystallized,replaced with dolomite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Encrustation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3324
Database number:38014
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:B. Brenneis, U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-03-31 00:57:33 Last modified:2004-04-17 13:59:31
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-31 00:57:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10121. B. Senowbari-Daryan and V. Zamparelli. 1999. Upper Triassic Sphinctozoan sponges from Northern Calabria (Southern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 105(1):145-154 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]

Secondary references:

24769 B. Senowbari-Daryan and V. Zamparelli. 2003. Upper Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) new thalamid sponges from northern Calabria (southern Italy). Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia 48(2):113-124 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]