Punta Pedrona PPE 50.05 (Ordovician to of Italy)

Where: Sardinia, Italy (39.2° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 69.9° S, 80.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Portixeddu Formation, Onnian to Onnian (453.0 - 449.2 Ma)

• PPE seems to refer to some point in the section, although it is not meters.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, phosphatic, pyritic, gray sandstone and lithified, phosphatic, pyritic, gray siltstone

• The sediments of the Portixeddu Formation show typical characteristics of the inner shelf

•environment not far below the normal wave base, being more littoral in the basal part and

•more offshore in the uppermost part. (From Leone et al. 1998).

• The formation consists mainly of richly fossiliferous dark-grey very fine sandstones,

•siltstones and shales, sometimes bearing pyritic and phosphatic nodules quite abundant in the upperpart. (From Leone et al. 1998).

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Botquelen, J. Le Menn, and A. Loi. 2006. Échinodermes de l’Ordovicien supérieur (Ashgill) de Sardaigne et d’Algérie. Geobios 39(1):13-23 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196941: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Blastoidea
 Coronata - Stephanocrinidae
Mespilocystites tregarvanicus
Mespilocystites tregarvanicus Chauvel and Le Menn 1973 blastoid
Rhombifera
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Sumsaricystis radiatus
Sumsaricystis radiatus Stukalina 1978