Ceraino, Southern Alps, Italy (Jurassic to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 3487

Where: Italy (45.6° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 19.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Misone limestone Formation, Pliensbachian to Pliensbachian (190.8 - 174.1 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified limestone

• mud mound in a deeper environment (shelf-slope or deep shelf)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: L. Beccarelli-Bauck. 1986. Stylothalamia from the Lower Jurassic Misone Limestone of Southern Alps, Italy. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 192:1-13 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38032: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 01.04.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
  -
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Demospongiae
 Verticillitida - Verticillitidae
Stylothalamia columnaris Le Maitre 1935 demosponge
 Pharetronida -
Inozoa indet. Steinmann 1882
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Radiomura
  -
Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin