Porto Torres Basin OG 4 (Miocene of Italy)

Where: Sardinia, Italy (40.8° N, 8.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 4.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: N7 foram zone, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• "upper Burdigalian" and "N7 Zone of Blow, 1969"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl

• "intermediate part of the outer neritic zone" or "outer neritic shelf"
• lithified based on photo of outcrop

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

• samples were "washed residues" consisting of "approximately 200 g"

Primary reference: A. Bossio, B. Dall'Antonia, S. Da Prato, L. M. Foresi, and G. Oggiano. 2006. Preliminary stratigraphical investigations of the Miocene successions of the Porto Torres Basin (northern Sardinia, Italy). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Memorie Seria A 111:67-74 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93942: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• planktonic forams were collected and identified but not reported on a sample-by-sample basis
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Leptocytheridae
Callistocythere spp. Ruggieri 1953 ostracod
 Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
 Podocopida -
Olimfalunia sp. ostracod
sp. 2 sensu Russo 1968
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Paracypris sp. Sars 1866 ostracod
 Podocopida - Xestoleberididae
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Henryhowella asperrima Reuss 1850 ostracod
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Krithidae
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod
Cytherella ex gr. vulgata Ruggieri 1962 ostracod