Montagna della Maiella: Burdigalian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
unclassified
Crinozoa indet. Matsumoto 1929
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
6 specimens
Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae
Squalodon sp. Grateloup 1840
2 specimens
Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
? Kentriodontidae indet. Slijper 1936
1 specimen
Actinopteri - Acanthopteri - Sphyraenidae
Sphyraena sp. Artedi 1793
2 elements
Actinopteri - Labriformes - Labridae
Labrodon sp. Gervais 1857
6 elements
Actinopteri - Spariformes - Sparidae
Sparidae informal morphotype 1
499 elements
Sparidae informal morphotype 2
22 elements
Diplodus sp. Rafinesque 1810
2 elements
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
Diodon sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 element
Chilomycterus sp. Brisout de Barneville 1846
2 elements
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo aduncus (Agassiz 1835)
19 elements
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Negaprion cf. eurybathrodon (Blake 1862)
18 elements
Galeocerdo contortus Gibbes 1847
1 element
recombined as Physogaleus contortus
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835
14 elements
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Carcharias cuspidata (Agassiz 1843)
313 elements
recombined as Araloselachus cuspidatus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Parotodus benedeni (Le Hon 1871)
7 elements
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
247 elements
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Carcharodon subauriculatus (Agassiz 1839)
4 elements
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810
90 elements
Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810
536 elements
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias acutissimus (Agassiz 1843)
269 elements
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Rhodophyta indet. Wettstein 1922
Trigonodontidae
Trigonodon jugleri (Münster 1846)
8 elements
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 14.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 13.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bolognano Member:middle
Stratigraphy comments: early Burdigalian biochonozone SBZ 25 of Cahuzac and Pignant (1997).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification" "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: bioclastic calcarenites (grainstones and subordinate packstones) with compound cross-bedding structures, characterized by abundant bryozoan remains, echinoderm fragments (mainly echinoids and chrinoides), molluscs and red algae
Environment:slope/ramp reef
Geology comments: carbonate ramp
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Lettomanoppello
Database number:70814
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-04-09 08:14:04 Last modified:2008-08-19 10:13:23
Access level:the public Released:2007-04-09 08:14:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23748. S. Marsili, G. Carnevale, E. Danese, G. Bianucci, and W. Landini. 2007. Early Miocene vertebrates from Montagna della Maiella, Italy. Annales de Paleontologie 93:27-66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]