Palizzi collection 886: Oligocene, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Amphisteginae indet.
"Amphistegines"
Rotalidae indet.
"Rotalides"
Anthozoa - Scleractinia
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900
"Polypiers"
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
"Echinides"
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Cymbaloporidae
Halkyardia maxima
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
"Miliolides"
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Alveolinidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
"petits Alveolinides"
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinaceae
Subterraniphyllum thomasi
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:5
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: calcaires biodetritiques a algues corallinacees
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: environment of member is said to be neritic marine based on fauna from underlying level
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:9118
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-09-22 15:22:12 Last modified:2009-03-29 19:20:14
Access level:the public Released:2000-09-22 15:22:12
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]