Corsi 266, approx. 145 x 73 x 40 mm, © Oxford University Museum of Natural History
| OUMNH Number: | 266 |
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| Name and quarry location: | Lumachella rossa di Verona, from Verona, Veneto, Italy |
| Geological description: | Limestone. The coarse-grained part of this bio-pel sparite has coated bioclasts (forams, shell fragments, algal fragments) with some molluscan debris. The fine-grained part is a fossiliferous micrite with large bioclasts of the above, together with whole and fragmentary spar-replaced bivalves. Note the colour banding normal to bedding, and the spar-filled fractures. |
| Comments: | Corsi's locality is most probably correct. |
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| Further information: |
Verona.pdf |
| Corsi's classification: | Class 1. Marbles; Section 3. Lumachellas; ii. Italian lumachellas |
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| Corsi's text: | 84.34 Lumachella rossa di Verona |