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Massimo Santantonio - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A reef coral in the condensed Maiolica facies on the Mt Nerone Pelagic carbonate platform (Marche Apennines): The enigma of ancient Pelagic Deposits
Sedimentary Geology, 2019Co-Authors: Angelo Cipriani, Simone Fabbi, Bernard Lathuiliere, Massimo SantantonioAbstract:Abstract A coral interpreted as a shallow-water zooxanthellate (z-) form has been recovered from the uppermost part of a condensed, Pelagic carbonate platform-top succession, in levels with transitional characters between the Jurassic Bugarone Group and the Maiolica Formation, a calpionellid-bearing Pelagic Deposit. While the existence of z-corals in the Jurassic Pelagic facies of northern Apenninic structural highs is well documented, with early Tithonian forms diagnostic of the lower layers of the photic zone, the species described in this paper is slightly younger (late Tithonian), possesses a different morphology and is known from typical reef facies. While this finding provides welcome evidence for the paleodepth interpretation of otherwise enigmatic facies, it also challenges our understanding of Pelagic Deposits, in paleoenvironments that have no modern counterparts.
Angelo Cipriani - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A reef coral in the condensed Maiolica facies on the Mt Nerone Pelagic carbonate platform (Marche Apennines): The enigma of ancient Pelagic Deposits
Sedimentary Geology, 2019Co-Authors: Angelo Cipriani, Simone Fabbi, Bernard Lathuiliere, Massimo SantantonioAbstract:Abstract A coral interpreted as a shallow-water zooxanthellate (z-) form has been recovered from the uppermost part of a condensed, Pelagic carbonate platform-top succession, in levels with transitional characters between the Jurassic Bugarone Group and the Maiolica Formation, a calpionellid-bearing Pelagic Deposit. While the existence of z-corals in the Jurassic Pelagic facies of northern Apenninic structural highs is well documented, with early Tithonian forms diagnostic of the lower layers of the photic zone, the species described in this paper is slightly younger (late Tithonian), possesses a different morphology and is known from typical reef facies. While this finding provides welcome evidence for the paleodepth interpretation of otherwise enigmatic facies, it also challenges our understanding of Pelagic Deposits, in paleoenvironments that have no modern counterparts.
Simone Fabbi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A reef coral in the condensed Maiolica facies on the Mt Nerone Pelagic carbonate platform (Marche Apennines): The enigma of ancient Pelagic Deposits
Sedimentary Geology, 2019Co-Authors: Angelo Cipriani, Simone Fabbi, Bernard Lathuiliere, Massimo SantantonioAbstract:Abstract A coral interpreted as a shallow-water zooxanthellate (z-) form has been recovered from the uppermost part of a condensed, Pelagic carbonate platform-top succession, in levels with transitional characters between the Jurassic Bugarone Group and the Maiolica Formation, a calpionellid-bearing Pelagic Deposit. While the existence of z-corals in the Jurassic Pelagic facies of northern Apenninic structural highs is well documented, with early Tithonian forms diagnostic of the lower layers of the photic zone, the species described in this paper is slightly younger (late Tithonian), possesses a different morphology and is known from typical reef facies. While this finding provides welcome evidence for the paleodepth interpretation of otherwise enigmatic facies, it also challenges our understanding of Pelagic Deposits, in paleoenvironments that have no modern counterparts.
Bernard Lathuiliere - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A reef coral in the condensed Maiolica facies on the Mt Nerone Pelagic carbonate platform (Marche Apennines): The enigma of ancient Pelagic Deposits
Sedimentary Geology, 2019Co-Authors: Angelo Cipriani, Simone Fabbi, Bernard Lathuiliere, Massimo SantantonioAbstract:Abstract A coral interpreted as a shallow-water zooxanthellate (z-) form has been recovered from the uppermost part of a condensed, Pelagic carbonate platform-top succession, in levels with transitional characters between the Jurassic Bugarone Group and the Maiolica Formation, a calpionellid-bearing Pelagic Deposit. While the existence of z-corals in the Jurassic Pelagic facies of northern Apenninic structural highs is well documented, with early Tithonian forms diagnostic of the lower layers of the photic zone, the species described in this paper is slightly younger (late Tithonian), possesses a different morphology and is known from typical reef facies. While this finding provides welcome evidence for the paleodepth interpretation of otherwise enigmatic facies, it also challenges our understanding of Pelagic Deposits, in paleoenvironments that have no modern counterparts.
Márton Rabi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A new large-bodied thalattosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Hungary, with further evidence of the mosaic acquisition of marine adaptations in Metriorhynchoidea
PeerJ Inc., 2018Co-Authors: Attila Ősi, Mark T. Young, András Galácz, Márton RabiAbstract:Based on associated and three-dimensionally preserved cranial and postcranial remains, a new thalattosuchian crocodyliform, Magyarosuchus fitosi gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Jurassic (Upper Toarcian) Kisgerecse Marl Formation, Gerecse Mountains, Hungary is described here. Phylogenetic analyses using three different datasets indicate that M. fitosi is the sister taxon of Pelagosaurus typus forming together the basal-most sub-clade of Metriorhynchoidea. With an estimated body length of 4.67–4.83 m M. fitosi is the largest known non-metriorhynchid metriorhynchoid. Besides expanding Early Jurassic thalattosuchian diversity, the new specimen is of great importance since, unlike most contemporaneous estuarine, lagoonal or coastal thalattosuchians, it comes from an ‘ammonitico rosso’ type Pelagic Deposit of the Mediterranean region of the Tethys. A distal caudal vertebra having an unusually elongate and dorsally projected neural spine implies the presence of at least a rudimentary hypocercal tail fin and a slight ventral displacement of the distal caudal vertebral column in this basal metriorhynchoid. The combination of retaining heavy dorsal and ventral armors and having a slight hypocercal tail is unique, further highlighting the mosaic manner of marine adaptations in Metriorhynchoidea