Where: Campania, Italy (40.3° N, 15.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 14.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Upper Tortonian, Globorotalia suterae subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: microfossils
Primary reference: G. Ciampo, M. G. Castro Coppa, and I. Sgrosso. 1979. Il Miocene Superiore dei dintorni di Salerno [The Upper Miocene of the Salerno region]. Bollettino della Societa dei Naturalisti in Napoli 88:87-99 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78631: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Globigerinoides obliquus, Globigerinoides ruber, Globigerinoides trilobus, Globigerinoides extremus, "Globigerina nepenthes" = Globoturborotalita nepenthes, Orbulina bilobata, Orbulina universa, Orbulina suturalis, Globigerina bulloides, "Globigerina quinqueloba" = Turborotalita quinqueloba
Globigerinoides obliquus Bolli 1957
Globigerinoides ruber d'Orbigny 1839
Globigerinoides trilobus Reuss 1850
Globigerinoides extremus Bolli and Bermudez 1965
"Globigerina nepenthes" = Globoturborotalita nepenthes Todd 1957
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny 1839
Orbulina suturalis Bronnimann 1951
Globigerina bulloides d'Orbigny 1826
"Globigerina quinqueloba" = Turborotalita quinqueloba Natland 1938 | |
Globigerinita glutinata Egger 1893 | |
Globorotalia praemargaritae, Globorotalia suterae, Globorotalia merotumida, "Globorotalia ex gr. miozea" = Globoconella miozea, "Globorotalia humerosa" = Neogloboquadrina humerosa, "Globorotalia acostaensis" = Neogloboquadrina acostaensis
Globorotalia merotumida Blow and Banner 1965
"Globorotalia ex gr. miozea" = Globoconella miozea Finlay 1939
"Globorotalia humerosa" = Neogloboquadrina humerosa Takayanagi and Saito 1962
"Globorotalia acostaensis" = Neogloboquadrina acostaensis Blow 1959 | |
Ostracoda | |
Argilloecia cf. acuminata ostracod | |
Parakrithe dactylomorpha ostracod |