Casa Maria Doloretta, biostrome (Cambrian of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1749

Where: Sardegna, Italy (39.4° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 48.5° S, 113.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Matoppa Formation (Nebida Group), Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• upper part of the formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• biostrome with Epiphyton-Girvanella boundstone core

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Gandin and F. Debrenne. 1984. Lower Cambrian bioconstructions in southwestern Sardinia (Italy). Geobios, Memoire special 8:231-240 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81030: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp.
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp.
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Archaeocyatha
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmocyathidae
Rasetticyathus sp.
Rasetticyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus sp.
Coscinocyathus sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus sp.
Dictyocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra sp.
Protopharetra sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Anthomorphidae
Anthomorpha sp.
Anthomorpha sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
unclassified
  -
Echinodermata indet.
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite