Portopalo, Pachino area, Sicily, rudist-coral buildups (Cretaceous of Italy)

Also known as Reef 2641

Where: Italy (36.7° N, 15.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 12.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified bafflestone

• rudist-coral bioherms and biostromes

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Camoin, M. C. Bernet-Rollande, and J. Philip. 1988. Rudist-coral frameworks associated with submarine volcanism in the Maastrichtian of the Pachino area (Sicily). Sedimentology 35:123-138 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74623: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.08.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp.
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
"Actaeonella sp." = Acteonella
"Actaeonella sp." = Acteonella d'Orbigny 1843 snail
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites ultimus, Vaccinites conicus, Hippurites heritschi, Hippurites cornucopiae
Vaccinites conicus rudist
subsp. adriaticus
Hippurites cornucopiae Defrance 1821 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Mitrocaprina sp., Plagioptychus aff. tibeticus
Mitrocaprina sp. Boehm 1895 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Neoradiolites serbicus, Biradiolites sp., Durania sp., Joufia reticulata, Pseudopolyconites laskarevi
Biradiolites sp. d'Orbigny 1850 rudist
Durania sp. Douvillé 1908 rudist
Joufia reticulata Boehm 1897 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Sabinia aniensis, Sabinia sp.
Sabinia sp. Parona 1908 rudist
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Apricardia pachiniana
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Faviidae indet.
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis martiniana
Actinacis martiniana d’Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoeniidae indet.
Astrocoeniidae indet. Koby 1890 stony coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet.
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet., "Pseudolithothamnium album" = Polystrata alba
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
"Pseudolithothamnium album" = Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenomeris sp.
Solenomeris sp. Douvillé 1924
Foraminifera
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
Orbitoides sp., Omphalocyclus sp.
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
Siderolites sp.