Sample 655, Pietra di Salomone (Permian of Italy)

Where: Sicily, Italy (37.7° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.3° S, 20.9° E)

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, red claystone

• Matrix of the reefal limestone blocks (note age discrepancy)

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original silica

Primary reference: H. Kozur. 1993. Upper Permian Radiolarians from the Sosio Valley Area, Western Sicily (Italy) and from the Uppermost Lamar Limestone of West Texas. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (Wien) 136(1):99-123 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95260: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 11.04.2010

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Entactinaria - Hindeosphaeridae
? Hindeosphaera sp. Kozur and Mostler 1979 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Entactiniidae
"Phaenicosphaera mammifera" = Hegleria mammilla
"Phaenicosphaera mammifera" = Hegleria mammilla Sheng and Wang 1985 radiolarian
several thousand, Torrente San Calogero section
 Nassellaria -
? Urocyrtis sp. radiolarian
 Albaillellaria - Follicucullidae
Cariver dorsoconvexus n. gen. n. sp. Kozur 1993 radiolarian
several hundred
Follicucullus bispinosus Kozur 1993 radiolarian
several thousand
Follicucullus porrectus Rudenko 1984 radiolarian
several ten thousand
Lacisus siphunculus n. gen. n. sp. Kozur 1993 radiolarian
several hundred
Parafollicucullus convexus radiolarian
reworked?
Pseudoalbaillella eurasiatica Kozur and Mostler 1989 radiolarian
Ishigaconus scholasticus radiolarian
several thousand
 Latentifistularia - Latentifistulidae
Latentifistula sp. Nazarov and Ormiston 1983 radiolarian
 Latentifistularia - Tetratormentidae
Mostlerispongus sosioensis n. gen. n. sp. Kozur 1993 radiolarian
 Latentifistularia -
Gustefana obliqueannulata n. gen. n. sp. Kozur 1993 radiolarian
several thousand