Balza di Rocca Limata reef, northcentral Sicily: Tortonian - Messinian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinaceae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Chevalier 1961
Porites cf. lobatosepta Chevalier 1961
Chevalier 1961
Porites calabricae Chevalier 1961
Chevalier 1961
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea crenulata (Goldfuss 1826)
Chevalier 1961
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Columastreidae
Palaeoplesiastraea columnaeformis Chevalier 1961
Chevalier 1961
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastrea sp. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857
Chevalier 1961
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Coeloria siciliae n. sp.
Chevalier 1961
synonym of Platygyra
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950
Chevalier 1961
Tarbellastraea siciliae n. sp. Chevalier 1961
Chevalier 1961
synonym of Tarbellastraea tenera
Tarbellastraea raulini (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
Budd et al. 1996
Tarbellastraea cf. prevostiana (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
Chevalier 1961
synonym of Tarbellastraea reussiana
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Palaeoplesiastraea desmoulinsi (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
Chevalier 1961
recombined as Solenastrea desmoulinsi
Palaeoplesiastraea romettensis (Seguenza 1864)
Chevalier 1961
recombined as Solenastrea romettensis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Meandrina sp. Lamarck 1801
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Vermetidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 37.7° North, 14.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 13.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian - Messinian
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Terravecchia
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Late Tortonian-Early Messinian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: channel-mouth reefs
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 678
Database number:69924
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-03-12 04:03:36 Last modified:2007-03-12 07:30:15
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-12 04:03:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

23472. M. Pedley. 1996. Miocene reef facies of the pelagian region (Central Mediterranean). SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology 5:247-259 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

28605 A. F. Budd, F. R. Bosellini, and T. A. Stemann. 1996. Systematics of the Oligocene to Miocene reef coral Tarbellastraea in the northern Mediterranean. Palaeontology 39(3):515-560 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]
23527 J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]