Palizzi collection 872 (Oligocene of Italy)

Where: Calabria, Italy (40.0° N, 16.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 14.1° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Palizzi Formation), Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• from a 5 cm-thick marl

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and marl

• fossils are from a thin marl within a carbonate

environment is said to be neritic marine based on this fauna

Turritella material consists of internal molds

Collection methods: lists for forams and ostracods end with "etc."

Primary reference: J. -P. Bouillin, C. Majeste-Menjoulas, M.-F. Ollivier-Pierre, Y. Tambareau, and J. Villatte. 1985. Transgression de l''Oligocene inferieur (formation de Palizzi) sur un karst a remplissage dans les zones internes calabro-peloritaines (Italie). Comptes Rendus de l''Academie des Sciences, Serie II 301(6):415-420 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9117: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 22.09.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Amphisteginae indet.
"Amphistegines"
Rotalidae indet.
"Rotalides"
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
 Buliminacea - Reusselidae
 Planorbulinacea - Cymbaloporidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Discorbidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
"Discorbides"
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
"Madreporaires"
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Schuleridea sp. Swartz and Swain 1946 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytheridae
 Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
Hermanites sp. Puri 1955 ostracod
Quadracythere sp. Hornibrook 1952 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
"petits"
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella cf. strangulata" = Turritella (Peyrotia) strangulata
"Turritella cf. strangulata" = Turritella (Peyrotia) strangulata Grateloup 1847 turret shell