Maiella Mountin, Pesco Falcone Fm, top of the coral unit (Oligocene to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 2948

Where: Italy (42.2° N, 14.1° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 12.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pesco Falcone Formation, Rupelian to Rupelian (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• late Rupelian to early Chattian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• coral bioconstructions

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. Brandano, L. Tomassetti, and I. Cornacchia. 2018. The lower Rupelian cluster reefs of Majella platform, the shallow water record of Eocene to Oligocene transition. Sedimentary Geology [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214251: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only corals decribed in detail
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Foraminifera
 Buliminacea -
Buliminacea indet. Jones 1875
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidocyclinidae
 Discorbacea -
Discorbacea indet. Ehrenberg 1838
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Planorbulinacea - Planorbulinidae
Planorbulina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Austrotrillinidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Lobatula lobatula Walker and Jacob 1798
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
Microcodium
  -
Microcodium sp. Gluck 1912
unclassified
  -
Rhodophyta indet. Wettstein 1922