Portopalo, Pachino area, Sicily, rudist-coral buildups: Maastrichtian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Calcarinidae
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Siderolites sp.
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Orbitoididae
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Omphalocyclus sp.
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Orbitoides sp.
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Florideophyceae
- Corallinales
- Corallinaceae
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Corallinaceae indet.
Lamouroux 1816
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Florideophyceae
- Corallinales
- Peyssonneliaceae
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Pseudolithothamnium album
Pfender 1936
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Rhodophyceae
- Solenoporaceae
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Solenomeris sp.
Douvillé 1924
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Actinacididae
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Actinacis martiniana
d’Orbigny 1850
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Faviidae
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Faviidae indet.
Gregory 1900
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Astrocoeniidae
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Astrocoeniidae indet.
Koby 1890
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Stromatoporoidea
- Stromatoporoidea
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Stromatoporoidea indet.
Nicholson and Murie 1878
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Acteonellidae
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Actaeonella sp.
(d'Orbigny 1843)
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Requieniidae
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Apricardia pachiniana
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Caprinidae
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Sabinia aniensis
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Sabinia sp.
Parona 1908
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Radiolitidae
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Neoradiolites serbicus
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Joufia reticulata
Boehm 1897
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Biradiolites sp.
d'Orbigny 1850
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Durania sp.
Douvillé 1908
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Pseudopolyconites laskarevi
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Hippuritidae
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Hippurites heritschi
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Hippurites cornucopiae
Defrance 1821
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Vaccinites ultimus
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Vaccinites conicus
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Plagioptychidae
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Mitrocaprina sp.
Boehm 1895
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Plagioptychus aff. tibeticus
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Cyanophyceae
- Garwoodiaceae
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Bacinella sp.
Radoicic 1959
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Geography
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: | 36.7° North, 15.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.7° North, 12.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified framestone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified bafflestone |
| Lithology description: rudist-coral bioherms and biostromes | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 2641 | ||
| Database number: | 74623 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-08-17 05:25:01 | Last modified: | 2007-08-17 08:27:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-17 05:25:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25091. | G. Camoin, M. C. Bernet-Rollande, and J. Philip. 1988. Rudist-coral frameworks associated with submarine volcanism in the Maastrichtian of the Pachino area (Sicily). Sedimentology 35:123-138 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |