Santa Cesarea Terme, Salento Peninsula, wackestone-mudstone facies, upper part (Eocene of Italy)

Also known as Reef 4386

Where: Italy (40.1° N, 18.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Torre Specchialaguardia Limestone Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Late Priabonian

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; packstone and rudstone

• packstone-rudstone rich in coral debris and subglose red algae. The sequence ultimates wirh a thick bed rich in larger foraminifers, red algae and rare solitary corals

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Russo. 2006. The upper Eocene reef deposits of Torre Specchialaguardia Limestone (S. Cesarea Terme, Salento Peninsula, southern Italy. Quaderni Museo Geologico G. G. Gemellaro 9:96-109 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224874: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.04.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Cricocyathus sp.
Cricocyathus sp. Quenstedt 1881 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
? Leptomussa sp.
? Leptomussa sp. d'Archiardi 1867 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
? Cyathoseris sp.
? Cyathoseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral