Salemia area, microbial mud-mound, Sicily (Miocene of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1731

Where: Italy (37.8° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 12.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baucina Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified lime mudstone

• microbial mounds, 2-2.5 m thick and 4 m wide, resting upon a marly-sandy substratum

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Saint Martin, G. Conesa, and J. J. Cornee. 1996. A new type of Messinian composite microbialitic build-up (Salemi, Sicily, Italy). Sedimentary Geology 106:51-63 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69922: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Ammonia sp. Bruennich 1772
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
Uvigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
Brizalina sp. Costa 1856
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Acervulinidae indet. Schultze 1854
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Xanthidae
Actaea sp. De Haan 1833 stone crab
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
Celleporaria palmata Michelin 1847
Echinoidea
 Camarodonta - Echinidae
Psammechinus sp. sea urchin
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral