Where: Italy (45.4° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 9.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Uppermost Priabonian
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; bindstone and wackestone
•characterised by the dominance of crustose coralline thalli. In places the coralline bindstone can be seen to develop from isolated encrusting-to-foliose thalli which bifurcate and join to form an open framework interbedded with matrix debris from crusts. Lumpy to fruticose branches frequently arise from
•the crustose coralline algal pavement; these have a relatively constant diameter of 3 mm and a height of up to 15 mm. Fragments of fruticose branches are present within the matrix. Rhodoliths occur commonly within this facies and are characteristically discoidal in shape
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: D. Bassi. 2005. The Upper Eocene crustose coralline algal pavement in the Colli Berici, north-eastern Italy. Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Ferrara Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 147800: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.07.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Foraminifera | |
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Rotaliidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
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Pellatispira madaraszi Hantken 1876 | |
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Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838 | |
| Florideophyceae | |
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Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |
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Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897 | |
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Spongites sp. Kützing 1841
Lithoporella melobesioides Foslie 1909 | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
| Echinoidea | |
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop | |
| Polychaeta | |
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Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |