Longi, Sicily (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (38.0° N, 14.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 13.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Black Limestones Formation, Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, black, blue, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, peel or thin section,

• Corals from unit 2,

Primary reference: J. Stolarski and A. Russo. 2002. Microstructural diversity of the stylophyllid (Scleractinia) skeleton. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(4):651-666 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40086: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 17.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Corals and two ammonites of stratigraphic value
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oppelismiliidae
Haimeicyclus haimei Chapuis and Dewalque 1853 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae
Stylophyllopsis sp. Frech 1890 stony coral
sp. A
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Asteroceratidae
 Ammonitida - Arietitidae
Arnioceras speciosum Fucini 1902 ammonite