Also known as Reef 678
Where: Italy (37.7° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 13.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Terravecchia Formation, Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Late Tortonian-Early Messinian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Pedley. 1996. Miocene reef facies of the pelagian region (Central Mediterranean). SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology 5:247-259 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 69924: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 | |
Anthozoa | |
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Meandrina sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral | |
"Palaeoplesiastraea desmoulinsi" = Solenastrea desmoulinsi2, "Palaeoplesiastraea romettensis" = Solenastrea romettensis2
"Palaeoplesiastraea desmoulinsi" = Solenastrea desmoulinsi2 Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
"Coeloria siciliae n. sp." = Platygyra2, Tarbellastraea sp.2, Tarbellastraea raulini1, "Tarbellastraea siciliae n. sp." = Tarbellastraea tenera2, "Tarbellastraea cf. prevostiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana2
"Tarbellastraea cf. prevostiana" = Tarbellastraea reussiana2 Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
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Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Vermetidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 worm shell | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin |