Where: Italy (45.5° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 9.8° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marne di Priabona Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the uppermost part "Marne a briozoi" of the Marna di Priabona Fm, which is overlain by coralligneous and nummulitic limestone of the Early Oligocene. AGE: Uppermost Priabonian. Age justified on the basis of calcareous nannoplankton. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From an outcrop of 5 m thickness at the top (immediately below overlying Oligocene limestone), within 40 m thick local section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow, blue, argillaceous, calcareous marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Padova University, Italy.
Primary reference: M. Fornaseiro and G. Vicariotto. 1995. Fossil cuttlebones in the Vicentinian Priabonian (Late Eocene, Veneto Region, NE Italy). Mem. Sci. Geol. 47:173-178 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81043: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Coccolithophyceae | |
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Reticulofenestra umbilicus | |
Reticulofenestra umbilicus Levin 1965 | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Archaeosepia monticulimajoris" = Hungarosepia
"Archaeosepia monticulimajoris" = Hungarosepia belemnite | |
Gastropoda | |
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys biarritzensis d'Archiac 1846 scallop
Spondylus cisalpinaus scallop
Spondylus podopsideus scallop
Spondylus buchi Philippi 1846 scallop | |
Pycnodonte brongniarti oyster
"Pycnodonte gigantica" = Gigantostrea gigantica Solander in Brander 1766 oyster
Gryphaeostrea eversa oyster | |
Crassostrea bersonensis, Lopha martinsi, Lopha plicatula, Ostrea bryzophila, Ostrea flabellulaeformis, Ostrea linguatula
Crassostrea bersonensis oyster
Lopha martinsi oyster
Lopha plicatula oyster
Ostrea bryzophila oyster
Ostrea flabellulaeformis oyster
Ostrea linguatula oyster | |
Lucina priabonensis clam | |
Chione praecursor venus clam | |
Cardita bericorum clam | |
Malacostraca | |
Xanthopsis kressenbergensis von Meyer 1862 stone crab | |
Echinoidea | |
Porosoma cribrum Agassiz 1840 sea urchin | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Notidanus primigenius" = Notorhynchus primigenius
"Notidanus primigenius" = Notorhynchus primigenius Agassiz 1835 sevengill shark | |
Euspatangus | |