| OUMNH Number: |
257
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| Name and quarry location: |
Pietra Rosone di Trapani, from Trapani, Sicily, Italy
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| References: |
Montana (1998) 69, 100-101; Price (2007) 166
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