Porto Torres Basin VT 3: Burdigalian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella ex gr. circumpunctata
Cytherelloidea creutzburgi
Ostracoda - Podocopida
Pachycaudites ungeri
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia conformis
Bairdia ex gr. mediterranea Müller 1894
recombined as Neonesidea mediterranea
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Ruggieria micheliniana
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherettidae
Cytheretta cf. semipunctata
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Paracytheridea grignonensis
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Loxoconcha hastata
Loxoconcha spp.
Loxoconcha punctatella
Sagmatocythere gibbosofoveolata
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Monoceratina mediterranea
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheridae
Cnestocythere truncata
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Leptocytheridae
Callistocythere spp.
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
Aurila spp.
Aurila ex gr. convexa
Aurila cf. opaca
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Candonidae
Phlyctenophora arcuata
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Sardinia
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 8.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.0° North, 4.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian Foram zone: N7
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "upper Burdigalian" and "N7 Zone of Blow, 1969"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Lithology description: lithified based on photo of outcrop
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: "intermediate part of the outer neritic zone" or "outer neritic shelf"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve
Rock censused:200 g
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: samples were "washed residues" consisting of "approximately 200 g"
Taxonomic list comments:planktonic forams were collected and identified but not reported on a sample-by-sample basis
Metadata
Database number:93945
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-02-06 22:10:25 Last modified:2010-02-07 00:10:25
Access level:the public Released:2010-02-06 22:10:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31935. A. Bossio, B. Dall'Antonia, S. Da Prato, L. M. Foresi, and G. Oggiano. 2006. Preliminary stratigraphical investigations of the Miocene successions of the Porto Torres Basin (northern Sardinia, Italy). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie Seria A 111:67-74 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]