Vibo Valentia, Airport Quarry, Calabria: Tortonian - Messinian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Nummulitidae
Heterostegina depressa
Elphidiidae
Elphidium crispum
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807
Porites calabricae n. sp. Chevalier 1961
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites sp. Link 1807
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950
Tarbellastraea reussiana (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
Tarbellastraea prevostiana (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
synonym of Tarbellastraea reussiana
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
? Favia cf. centralis
Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas deshayesi
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Clypeaster acuminatus
var. reidii
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga cf. lithophaga (Linnaeus 1758)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys elegans
Chlamys scabrella (Lamarck 1819)
recombined as Chlamys scabrellus
Chlamys multistriata (Poli 1795)
recombined as Talochlamys multistriata
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis cf. subcirculata
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida
Terebratulida indet. Waagen 1883
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 16.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.4° North, 15.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian - Messinian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: 10-20 m of reefal limestone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3113
Database number:70493
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-03-26 03:06:42 Last modified:2007-03-26 06:06:42
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-26 03:06:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]