Sangonini: Rupelian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Heliastrea lucasana (Defrance 1826)
recombined as Antiguastrea lucasiana
Latimaeandra tenera n. sp. Reuss 1868
synonym of Hydnophyllia stellata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stylocoenia lobatorotundata (Michelin 1842)
recombined as Astrocoenia lobatorotundata
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agariciidae
? Thamnastraea heterophylla Reuss 1868
synonym of Cyathoseris appennina
Comoseris alternans n. sp. Reuss 1868
synonym of Cyathoseris appennina
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Dictyaraea elegans (Leymerie 1846)
recombined as Goniopora elegans
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Veneto County:Vicenza
Coordinates: 45.8° North, 11.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.0° 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:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Castelgomberto
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Secondary lithology: lithified tuff
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:91653
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-10-13 02:07:51 Last modified:2009-10-13 04:07:51
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-10-13 02:07:51
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]