Monte Solane Fish Bed (Eocene of Italy)

Where: Verona, Italy (45.5° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 9.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chiusole Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Occurs within zones NP13 and CP11 based on microfossil assemblage analysis

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• Based on fish taxa present, inferred to be open marine basin with a depth most probably greater than 300 m
• a package of laminated dark-brown and gray hard limestones (ca. 30 cm thick). Small pyrite nodules occur just below the base of the level, subdivided into 3 beds 10 cm thick. It

•corresponds to the fish and plant-bearing interval

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: L. Giusberti, A. Bannikov, F. B. Galazzo, E. Fornaciari, J. Frieling, V. Luciana, C. A. Pappazoni, G. Roghi, S. Schouten, A. Sluijs, F. R. Bosellini and R. Zorzin. 2014. A new Fossil-Lagerstätte from the Lower Eocene of Lessini Mountains (northern Italy): A multidisciplinary approach. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 403:1-15 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 190957: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 31.12.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• many microfossil groups sampled through local section, at different stratigraphic levels.
unclassified
  -
Dombeyopsis
  -
Dombeyopsis sp. Unger 1850
Florideophyceae
 Ceramiales - Rhodymeniophycidae
Actinopteri
 Stomiatiformes - Gonostomatidae
cf. Scopeloides sp. Wettstein 1887
 Kurtiformes - Apogonidae
Apogonidae indet. Bonaparte 1846 Cardinalfish
 Teleostei -
Perciformes indet. Bleeker 1859 perch-like fish
 Perciformes -
Trichiuroidei indet. perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Propercarinidae
? Propercarinidae indet. Bannikov 1995 perch-like fish
 Scombriformes - Euzaphlegidae
 Scombriformes - Gempylidae
 Scombriformes - Trichiuridae
cf. Anenchelum sp. de Blainville 1818
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
cf. Eomyctophum sp. Danil'chenko 1947 lanternfish
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Clupeidae indet. Cuvier 1817 herring
 Teleostei -
Anguilliformes indet. Greenwood et al. 1966 eel