Upper Cretaceous-Lower Eocene succession of the Monte Postale and its relationship with the “Pesciara di Bolca” (Lessini Mountains, northern Italy): deposition of a fossil-fish lagerstätte

Trevisani, Enrico

doi:10.1007/s10347-015-0431-y

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“…The contact between these lateral facies is locally sharp and was interpreted as a probable tectonic contact by Munier Chalmas (1891) and Trevisani (2015). During field observations we did not find any evidence of tectonic activity in this portion of the succession; instead, we observed a gradual, continuous transition between the bedded limestones and the massive limestones some tens of meters far.…”

Section: Description and Facies Distributionsupporting

confidence: 56%

“…Up to now, the larger foraminiferal assemblages from the Monte Postale were studied either as single samples from unresolved stratigraphic levels (e.g., Hottinger, 1960) or as the bulk fossil content of the stratigraphic succession (Trevisani 2015). Regarding calcareous nannofossils, no studies have concerned Monte Postale before now.…”

Section: Integrated Biozonation (Sb-cne Zones)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This name groups together the Pesciara and the Monte Postale laminites, which are apparently very similar and so presumably correlate to each other. Trevisani (2015) concluded that ''the Pesciara stratigraphic section is synchronous with the M. Postale 2 section.'' This assumption is to some extent vague and leaves uncertainties about the correlation of the 15-m thick Pesciara section with the 90-m thick M. Postale 2 section.…”

Section: Integrated Biozonation (Sb-cne Zones)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unfortunately, in the comprehensive geological and stratigraphic survey of the Bolca area by Barbieri and Medizza (1969) the Monte Postale was not taken into consideration. Trevisani (2015), based on preliminary data by Papazzoni and Trevisani (2009), ascribed the 60 m of ''Nummulitic limestone'' of his M. Postale 1 succession to the SBZ 10-11. However, the study does not report the distribution of fossils in the section, and determined the SBZ 10 on the presence of Nummulites partschi, which indeed spans through the SBZ 10 and 11 (see Serra-Kiel et al 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Integrating Shallow Benthic and Calcareous Nannofossil Zones: The Lower Eocene of the Monte Postale Section (Northern Italy)

Papazzoni¹,

Fornaciari²,

Giusberti³

et al. 2017

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The Monte Postale section (Bolca, northern Italy), one of the most famous Lagersta ̈tten of the Eocene, has been investigated to reconstruct the sedimentary succession and to determine both the larger foraminiferal and the calcareous nannofossil biozones. The results allowed us to ascribe the Monte Postale limestones to the Shallow Benthic Zone 11 and to the calcareous nannofossil Zone CNE 5-?6 (1⁄4 NP 13-?14a). The direct correlation of the SB and CNE Zones is consistent with the current biostratigraphic schemes and allows assignment of the deposition of the succession to the interval between 50.7 and 48.9 Ma, in the late Ypresian (early Eocene). According to the available biostratigraphic data, the uppermost portion of the Monte Postale section should correlate with the Pesciara limestones

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Section: Description and Facies Distributionsupporting

confidence: 56%

Section: Integrated Biozonation (Sb-cne Zones)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Integrated Biozonation (Sb-cne Zones)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Integrating Shallow Benthic and Calcareous Nannofossil Zones: The Lower Eocene of the Monte Postale Section (Northern Italy)

Papazzoni¹,

Fornaciari²,

Giusberti³

et al. 2017

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“…Location and geological map of the Bolca area, showing the Monte Postale limestones. Adapted from Trevisani (), and Marramà et al . ().…”

Section: The Monte Postale Sitementioning

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Eocene isopods on electric rays: tracking ancient biological interactions from a complex fossil record

et al. 2018

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Isopod crustaceans have developed a variety of feeding strategies, which impact on their various life habits over time. Apart from morphological adaptations and the typical secondary deformations that some parasitic isopods inflict on their host's exoskeleton, traces of feeding behaviours involving isopods on their victim/food are seldom fossilized. Many of these rare occurrences consist of cases for which the degree of association between the isopods and their potential food source is unclear, or the interaction only very briefly explained (recently analysed cases excepted). There are two limiting problems in identifying the biological nature of fossilized associations: (1) direct associations of organisms preserved as ‘imprint’ (as opposed to inclusions in cherts or amber) are shaped by several taphonomic events difficult to identify (such as the time of death, burial and fossilization of the organism); (2) even in modern nature, differences within syn vivo interactions (like parasitism and micropredation) are poorly understood in marine systems. We report the occurrence of isopods associated with ancient chondrichthyans which also represent rare cases of the preservation of several fossil isopods on larger organisms. These organisms are adult electric rays of the genus †Titanonarke Carvalho from the late Ypresian (Eocene) of the Monte Postale site, Bolca Lagerstätte, Italy. By examining: (1) the involved lineages of rays and isopods; (2) the taphonomy of the association; (3) its environmental context; and (4) biological/adaptive features; we identify this association as a selective case, either of ancient scavenging or of micropredation on specific electric rays by isopods.

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An Eocene paraclupeid fish (Teleostei, Ellimmichthyiformes) from Bolca, Italy: the youngest marine record of double‐armoured herrings

Marramà

Банников

Kriwet

et al. 2018

Papers in Palaeontology

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A new double-armoured herring of the clupeomorph order Ellimmichthyiformes, Eoellimmichthys superstes gen. et sp. nov., is described herein based on a single partially complete specimen from the early Eocene Pesciara site of the Bolca Konservat-Lagerst€ atte, north-eastern Italy. The fossil documented herein exhibits a unique combination of features (e.g. ornamentation of the skull bones; medial fusion of the contralateral halves of the neural arches of abdominal vertebrae; teeth on endopterygoid, parhypural fused to the first preural centrum; presence of a short series of 6 (or 7) predorsal scutes increasing in size posteriorly; postpelvic scutes bearing very prominent spines), which clearly supports its recognition as a new genus and species of the family Paraclupeidae. Evidence is provided to show that Eoellimmichthys gen. nov. is most closely related phylogenetically to the Early Cretaceous genus Ellimmichthys. The new taxon described herein represents the youngest marine occurrence of the family Paraclupeidae and, more generally, of the order Ellimmichthyiformes, suggesting that the shallow marine settings of the Tethys might have favoured the persistence of certain fish lineages that were severely affected by the endCretaceous mass extinction.

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Upper Cretaceous-Lower Eocene succession of the Monte Postale and its relationship with the “Pesciara di Bolca” (Lessini Mountains, northern Italy): deposition of a fossil-fish lagerstätte

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Integrating Shallow Benthic and Calcareous Nannofossil Zones: The Lower Eocene of the Monte Postale Section (Northern Italy)

Integrating Shallow Benthic and Calcareous Nannofossil Zones: The Lower Eocene of the Monte Postale Section (Northern Italy)

Eocene isopods on electric rays: tracking ancient biological interactions from a complex fossil record

An Eocene paraclupeid fish (Teleostei, Ellimmichthyiformes) from Bolca, Italy: the youngest marine record of double‐armoured herrings

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