ammonites
Balza di Rocca Limata reef, northcentral Sicily (Miocene to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 678

Where: Italy (37.7° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 13.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Terravecchia Formation, Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Late Tortonian-Early Messinian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• channel-mouth reefs

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Pedley. 1996. Miocene reef facies of the pelagian region (Central Mediterranean). SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology 5:247-259 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69924: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.03.2007