Cima Ombladet, Carnic Alps, reef flat (Devonian to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1368

Where: Italy (46.6° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 30.0° S, 33.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Givetian to Givetian (387.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• facies of the reef flat: alternation of sparitic facies (detrital crinoidal facies, detrital crinoid-stromatoporoid facies, detrital Thamnopora facies) and micritic facies (crinoidal facies, micritic Thamnopora facies)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Galli. 1985. Depositional environments in the Devonian limestone succession of the Cima Ombladet (Carnic Alps, Italy). Facies 12:97-112 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84302: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.10.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tentaculitoidea
 Trypanoporida -
Trypanopora sp. Sokolov and Obut 1955
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Caliapora battersbyi tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Receptaculites sp. Defrance 1827
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877