OUMNH Number: | 257 |
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Name and quarry location: | Pietra Rosone di Trapani, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy |
Geological description: | Limestone. The matrix is fine-grained microspar crowded with bioclasts of benthic forams, molluscs, bryozoans, echinoderms, calcareous algae etc. It contains abundant silicate grains, as well as larger fossils and calcareous algae. |
Comments: | This specimen has been recognised as 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: | 28.25 Lumachella di Torino |