Salemia area, microbial mud-mound, Sicily: Messinian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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informal Thrombolite indet.
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Poritidae
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Porites sp.
Link 1807
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Echinoidea
- Camarodonta
- Echinidae
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Psammechinus sp.
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Lepraliellidae
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Celleporaria palmata
(Michelin 1847)
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Schizoporellidae
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Schizobrachiella sp.
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Saint Martin 2001 | ||||||
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Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Serpulidae indet.
Rafinesque 1835
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Spondylidae
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Spondylus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Saint Martin 2001 | ||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Xanthidae
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Actaea sp.
De Haan 1833
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Saint Martin 2001 | ||||||
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Elphidiidae
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Elphidium sp.
Monfort 1808
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Rotaliidae
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Ammonia sp.
Bruennich 1772
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Uvigerinidae
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Uvigerina sp.
d'Orbigny 1826
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Bolivinidae
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Brizalina sp.
Costa 1856
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Nubeculariidae
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Nubeculariidae indet.
Jones 1875
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Globothalamea
- Loftusiida
- Acervulinidae
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Acervulinidae indet.
Schultze 1854
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Florideophyceae
- Corallinales
- Hydrolithaceae
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Lithoporella sp.
Foslie 1909
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Geography
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: | 37.8° North, 12.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.6° North, 12.6° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Messinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Messinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Baucina |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified lime mudstone |
| Lithology description: microbial mounds, 2-2.5 m thick and 4 m wide, resting upon a marly-sandy substratum | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 1731 | ||
| Database number: | 69922 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-12 01:46:54 | Last modified: | 2007-03-12 03:46:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-12 01:46:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23470. | J. P. Saint Martin, G. Conesa, and J. J. Cornee. 1996. A new type of Messinian composite microbialitic build-up (Salemi, Sicily, Italy). Sedimentary Geology 106:51-63 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 23471 | J. P. Saint Martin. 2001. Implications de la presence de mud-mound microbiens au Messinien (Sicile, Italie) [Implications of the presence of microbial mud-mounds in Messinian deposits (Sicily, Italy)]. Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie 2a: Sciences de la Terre et des planetes 332:527-534 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |