Ponte dell`Anguillara (Jurassic to of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.5° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 18.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rotzo Member (Calcari Grigi Formation), Pliensbachian to Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, intraclastic, peloidal limestone and lignite

• Rotzo Member is comprised mainly of oolitic, peloidal, bioclastic and intraclastic limestones; marls and clays are common with occasional lignites

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: N. M. Fraser, D. J. Bottjer and A. G. Fischer. 2004. Dissecting "Lithiotis" Bivalves: Implications for the Early Jurassic Reef Eclipse. Palaios 19(1):51-67 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42434: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 29.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Gervilleioperna sp. Krumbeck 1923 oyster
 Pterioida -
Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina sp. Paalzow 1922
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Spirocyclinidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Frondicularia sp. Defrance 1824
Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Mayncinidae