Villagreca, Genna Siustas Section (Miocene of Italy)

Where: Sardinia, Italy (39.4° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. Cherchi, M. Murru, and L. Simone. 2000. Miocene Carbonate Factories in the Syn-rift Sardinia Graben Subbasins (Italy). Facies 43:223-240 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167913: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Atrina servatrina oyster
spp. subpectinata
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Foraminifera
  -
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Miogypsinidae