Masseria Concarone, sample 259 (Pliocene of Italy)

Where: Matera, Italy (40.3° N, 16.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• bed sample 259

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithology not reported

• "cold and deep- water"
• no information given in the text

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Zibrowius and B. Plagella. 1981. First record of the genus Fungiacyathus (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) from the mediterranean area: Pliocene of Masseria Concarone (MT., southern Italy. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 20(2):143-146 [W. Kiessling/S. Jankowski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84303: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sophie Jankowski on 07.10.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Fungiacyathidae
Fungiacyathus sp.
Fungiacyathus sp. Sars 1872 stony coral