Madonie Mountains, Piano Battaglia, Sicily (Jurassic of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1272

Where: Italy (37.9° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.5° N, 15.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• calcilutites and peloidal calcarenites with intraclasts, coralgal calcirudites, algal limestones, loferitic limestones

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: I. I. Bucur, B. Senowbari-Daryan, and B. Abate. 1996. Remarks on some foraminifera from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) reef limestone of Madonie Mountains (Sicily). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 35(1):65-80 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68259: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Echinoida -
Echinoida indet.1
Echinoida indet.1 Troschel 1872 sea urchin
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.1
Serpulidae indet.1 Rafinesque 1835
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.1
Brachiopoda indet.1 Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.1
Bryozoa indet.1 Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria sp.1
Thamnasteria sp.1 LeSauvage 1823 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Aulastraea conica n. sp.1
Aulastraea conica n. sp.1 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
? Aplophyllia sp.1, Stylina sp.1
? Aplophyllia sp.1 D'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
Stylina sp.1 Lamarck 1816 stony coral
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp.1
Tubiphytes sp.1 Maslov 1956
Stromatoporoidea
  -
Ellipsactinia sp.1
Ellipsactinia sp.1 stromatoporoid sponge
 Sphinctozoa -
Sphinctozoa indet.
Sphinctozoa indet. Steinmann 1882
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet.
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Sphaerocoeliidae
Barroisia siciliana n. sp.2
Barroisia siciliana n. sp.2 Senowbari-Daryan and Abate 1996 calcareous sponge
 Aspiculata -
Inozoida indet.
Inozoida indet. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 calcareous sponge
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Neoteutloporella socialis
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Nipponophycus ramosus
Nipponophycus ramosus Yabe and Toyama 1928
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Mohlerina basiliensis n. gen.
Mohlerina basiliensis n. gen. Mohler 1938
Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Acruliammina sp.
Acruliammina sp. Loeblich and Tappan 1946
 Lituolacea - Nautiloculinidae
Nautiloculina bronnimanni
Nautiloculina bronnimanni Arnaud-Vanneau and Peybernes 1978
 Textulariina - Coscinophragmatidae
Coscinophragma aff. cribrosum
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospira sp.
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
? Reophax sp.
? Reophax sp. Montfort 1808
 Hormosinacea - Cribratinidae
? Cribratina sp.
 Hormosinacea - Telamminidae
Troglotella incrustans
 Loftusiacea - Mesoendothyridae
? Mesoendothyra sp.
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
Everticyclammina virguliana
  -
Protopeneroplis striata, Protopeneroplis ultragranulata, Bulbophragmium sp.
Protopeneroplis striata Weynschenck 1950
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
Charentia evoluta
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina alpina
 Spirillinina - Spirillinidae
Spirillina sp.
Spirillina sp. Reuss 1862
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
? Bigenerina sp., Textularia sp., Verneuilina sp., "? Guadryina sp." = Gaudryina, ? Haddonia sp.
? Bigenerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Verneuilina sp. d'Orbigny 1831
"? Guadryina sp." = Gaudryina d'Orbigny 1839
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet.
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
? Planiinvoluta sp.
1Schäfer and Senowbari-Daryan 1980; 2Senowbari-Daryan and Abate 1996