Ca’ Fornace site (Miocene to of Italy)

Where: Italy (44.2° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 11.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Tortonian / ?early Messinian)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• limestone as an ancient methane-seep deposit

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Kiel, M. Sami, and M. Taviani. 2018. A serpulid-Anodontia-dominated methane-seep deposit from the upper Miocene of northern Italy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63(3):569-577 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200115: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.03.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Protis sp.
Protis sp. Ehlers 1887
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Hyalogyrinidae
Hyalogyrina ? sp.
Hyalogyrina ? sp. Marshall 1988 snail
 Lepetellida - Anatomidae
Anatoma sp.
Anatoma sp. Woodward 1859 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Elachisinidae
Laeviphitus sp.
Laeviphitus sp. van Aartsen et al. 1989 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Idas aff. tauroparva
Idas aff. tauroparva Sacco 1898 mussel
 Arcida - Arcidae
? Asperarca sp.
? Asperarca sp. Sacco 1898 clam
 Cardiida - Vesicomyidae
Isorropodon ? sp.
Isorropodon ? sp. Sturany 1896 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma sp., Anodontia mioinflata
Lucinoma sp. Dall 1901 clam
Anodontia mioinflata Kiel et al. 2018 clam
“Anodontia” mioinflata
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophylliidae indet.
Caryophylliidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophylliidae indet.
Dendrophylliidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral