Palizzi collection 872: Oligocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Amphisteginae indet.
"Amphistegines"
Rotalidae indet.
"Rotalides"
Globothalamea - Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Sphaerogypsina globula Reuss 1848
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Discorbidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
"Discorbides"
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808
Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
Cymbaloporidae
Halkyardia maxima
Reusselidae
Reussella spinulosa
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900
"Madreporaires"
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella cf. strangulata Grateloup 1847
recombined as Turritella (Peyrotia) strangulata
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
"petits"
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
Quadracythere sp. Hornibrook 1952
Pokornyella cf. amygdaliformis
Hermanites sp. Puri 1955
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheridae
? Cnestocythere sp.
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Schuleridea sp. Swartz and Swain 1946
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Calabria
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 16.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.6° North, 14.1° East
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Oligocene
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Palizzi Member:Middle
Local section:Palizzi Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: from a 5 cm-thick marl
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: fossils are from a thin marl within a carbonate

environment is said to be neritic marine based on this fauna

Turritella material consists of internal molds

Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: lists for forams and ostracods end with "etc."
Metadata
Database number:9117
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-09-22 15:12:19 Last modified:2001-08-16 13:10:42
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

790. J. -P. Bouillin, C. Majeste-Menjoulas, M.-F. Ollivier-Pierre, Y. Tambareau, and J. Villatte. 1985. Transgression de l''Oligocene inferieur (formation de Palizzi) sur un karst a remplissage dans les zones internes calabro-peloritaines (Italie). Comptes Rendus de l''Academie des Sciences, Serie II 301(6):415-420 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]