Where: Emilia-Romagna, Italy (44.5° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 11.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Globorotalia margaritae-Globorotalia bononiensis zones
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Russo. 1980. The psychrospheric coral fauna from the Lower Pliocene of northern Italy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 25:613-617 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 92184: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Flabellum berti stony coral | |
Stephanocyathus strobeli, Stephanocyathus hemisphericus, Caryophyllia communis, Caryophyllia zancleus, Caryophyllia ingens, Ceratotrochus ex gr. multiserialis
Stephanocyathus strobeli stony coral
Stephanocyathus hemisphericus stony coral
Caryophyllia communis stony coral
Caryophyllia zancleus stony coral
Caryophyllia ingens stony coral
Ceratotrochus ex gr. multiserialis Michelotti 1838 stony coral | |