OUMNH Number: | 234 |
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Name and quarry location: | Lumachella di Menaggio, from Menaggio, Como, Lombardy, Italy, or more likely a lumachella from Verona or Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. |
Geological description: | Fossiliferous pel-sparite limestone. It has abundant peloids and intraclasts of micritic limestone in a sparry matrix. Some layers are rich in bivalves, others are edgewise breccia together with fragments of laminated 'algal' cyanobacterial micrite. |
Comments: | Perhaps from Menaggio, on the west bank of Lake Como, Lombardy, Italy, but resembles astracane di Verona and is more likely to be from the Verona/Vicenza area, Veneto, Italy, the provenance indicated by the painted number on the back of the specimen (see Verona.pdf for more information). |
References: | Price (2007) 161 |
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Corsi's classification: | Class 1. Marbles; Section 3. Lumachellas; ii. Italian lumachellas |
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Corsi's text: | 80.2 Lumachella di Menagio, sul lago di Como |