Monte Spiado: Rupelian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites nummulitica
Reuss 1864
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Agariciidae
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Latimaeandra morchelloides
Reuss 1868
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Acroporidae
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Alveopora rudis
Reuss 1864
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Merulinidae
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Heliastrea lucasana
(Defrance 1826)
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? Ulophyllia acutijuga
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Montastraeidae
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Phyllocoenia irradians
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Euphylliidae
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Plocophyllia constricta
Reuss 1868
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Plocophyllia flabellata
Reuss 1868
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Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Veneto | County: | Vicenza |
| Coordinates: | 45.5° North, 11.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 9.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Rupelian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 33.9 - 27.82 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Castelgomberto |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: marly limestones | |
| Environment: | perireef or subreef |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:corals only | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 91652 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-10-13 01:15:23 | Last modified: | 2009-10-13 03:15:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-10-13 01:15:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30888. | A. E. Reuss. 1868. Paläontologische Studien über die älteren Tertiärschichten der Alpen, 1: Die fossilen Anthozoen der Schichten von Castelgomberto [Paleontological studies about the older Tertiary beds in the Alps, 1: The fossil Anthozoa from the Castelcomberto Formation]. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 28:129-184 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |