Palizzi collections 878 and 880 (Oligocene of Italy)

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

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• the two collections are separated by about one meter

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; green marl

• said to be lagoonal based on molluscs and ostracods in this part of the section
• marnes verdatres = greenish marl

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 9116: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 22.09.2000

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Taxonomic list

• unidentified oysters (= huitres) and gastropods are shown at this level in the section but not mentioned in the faunal list per se
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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet.
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
"Huitres"
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"Gasteropodes"
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Schuleridea sp.
Schuleridea sp. Swartz and Swain 1946 ostracod
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Oertliella sp.
 Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
? Hermanites sp., Pokornyella sp.
? Hermanites sp. Puri 1955 ostracod
Pokornyella sp. Oertil 1956 ostracod
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet.
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
"Miliolides"
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nonionidae indet.
Nonionidae indet. Schultze 1854
"Nonionides"
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Sphaerogypsina globula