OUMNH Number: | 247 |
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Name and quarry location: | probably Pietra Rosone di Trapani, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Geological description: | Limestone. Calcareous algal 'reef' with benthic foraminifera and bryozoans. It has solution-modified clay seams/solution seams. |
Comments: | The provenance, Genoa, is very doubtful. This specimen resembles pietra rosone di Trapani from Sicily, an algal limestone of lower to middle Miocene age. See Montana 1998. |
References: | Montana (1998) 69, 100-101; Price (2007) 166 |
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Corsi's classification: | Class 1. Marbles; Section 3. Lumachellas; ii. Italian lumachellas |
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Corsi's text: | 81.15 Lumachella di Genova |