Pietra di Salomone (Permian of Italy)

Where: Italy (37.7° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Montanaro Gallitelli

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Montanaro Gallitelli. 1954. Il Permiano del Sosio e i suoi coralli. Palaeontographica Italica 49:1-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113433: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Octocorallia -
Trachypsammia mediterranea n. sp. Montanaro Gallitelli 1954
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora gerthi n. sp. Montanaro Gallitelli 1954 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
"Alveolites" sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
"Wentzelella sicula n. sp." = Wentzelellites sicula
"Wentzelella sicula n. sp." = Wentzelellites sicula Montanaro Gallitelli 1954 horn coral
 Stauriida - Plerophyllidae
"Pleramplexus cf. similis" = Paracaninia similis
"Pleramplexus cf. similis" = Paracaninia similis Schindewolf 1942 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophocarinophyllum acanthiseptum Grabau 1922 horn coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
"Chaetetes" cf. thomsoni Reed 1927 demosponge
Ascidiacea
 Khmeriamorpha - Khmeriidae
"Khmeria importans" = Khmeria problematica
"Khmeria importans" = Khmeria problematica Mansuy 1914 sea squirt