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Calcare di Sogno

The Calcare di Sogno ("Sogno Limestone"; also known as the Sogno Formation) is a geological formation in Italy, dated to roughly between 182-169 million years ago and covering the Lower Toarcian-Late Bajocian stagess of the Jurassic Period in the Mesozoic Era.[1] Thallatosuchian remains are known from the formation, as well fishes and other taxa.[2]

Calcare di Sogno
Stratigraphic range: Lower Toarcian-Late Bajocian
~182–169 Ma
TypeGeological formation
Sub-unitsLivello a Pesci
UnderliesFormazione delle Radiolariti
OverliesCalcare di Domaro, Calcare di Morbio, Unnamed limestones[note 1]
ThicknessTypically 120–140 m (390–460 ft)
East and west 70–100 m (230–330 ft)
Lithology
PrimaryMarl, marly limestone & abundance of clay
Secondary: Alternation of marly limestones and marls, presence of graded Chalcudites
OtherLimestones with nodules of flint & subordinate marls
Location
Coordinates45°48′N 9°18′E / 45.8°N 9.3°E / 45.8; 9.3
Approximate paleocoordinates33°24′N 18°54′E / 33.4°N 18.9°E / 33.4; 18.9
RegionLecco Province
Country Italy
Type section
Named forSogno
Named byGaetani & Poliani
Calcare di Sogno is located in Italy
Calcare di Sogno
Calcare di Sogno (Italy)
Calcare di Sogno is located in Lombardy
Calcare di Sogno
Calcare di Sogno (Lombardy)

Description

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During the Early Jurassic, concretely towards the Toarcian, the Lombardy Basin became a relatively deep, fully pelagic area, located between the so called Lugano High, at the west, and the Trento Plateau to the east, with several troughs and palaeohighs (West to east: Monte Nudo Trough, Lugano High, Generoso Trough, Corni di Canzo High, Albenza Plateau, Monte Cavallo High, Sebino Trough and Botticino High).[3] The formation is characterized by a disposition of regional deposition equivalent to the German Posidonia Shale, with a benthonic setting and deposition trends, mostly populated by marine fauna.[4] The environment of the formation was related to a marginal marine deposit, with probably epicontinetal deposition from near land environments, being connected to the central European seas and the North African currents of the Toarcian.[5] The formation is linked with the Toarcian Anoxic Event, that is measured in the “Fish Level”, that is also the most fossiliferous section.[6]

Environment

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Two cores, the Colle di Sogno and Gajum are among the best sections that recovered the ecological changes in the Pliensbachian-Toarcian Lombardy Basin.[7] Carbon-and oxygen-isotope data calibrated against nannofossil biostratigraphy has shown that the palaeobathymetry of the deposits was about 1000 and 1500 m, being the deepest records of the T-OAE in the western Tethyan region.[8] As the Sogno Formation was deposited mostly on a Pelagic setting, influenced by both the European and African bioregions, taxa of several provenance mix on this layers. The Nannofosil assemblage, that ranges from moderate/poor to good decreasing in the Toarcian AOE (drastic decrease in total abundance is observed in the Fish Level), includes the taxa Lotharingius (L. hauffii, L. sigillatus, L. crucicentralis, L. velatus), Discorhabdus ignotus, Diductius constans, Carinolithus (C. poulnabronei, C. superbus), Mitrolithus jansae and Watznaueria sp.1 in the Gajum Core, while the Sogno Core shows abundance of the genera Biscutum, Calyculus, Carinolithus and Crepidolithus, whereas Bussonius, Diductius, Similiscutum, Parhabdolithus and Tubirhabdus are extremely rare.[9] The overall structure of this microtaxa assemblage trends to suggest a correlation with the biohorizon seen in coeval layers in the Lusitanian Basin, where is observed a common trend in the Western Tethys of north-south migration pathway for several organisms, including calcareous nannoplankton and ammonites.[9]

A local index genus for environment evolution is Schizosphaerella spp. (specially S. punctulata), showing a lower valve size than in coeval layers on connected basins (Lusitanian and Paris Basins), as local result of the Lower Toarcian Jenkyns Event, indicating changues in ocean acidification and fertility rather than temperature.[10]

Fossil content

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Ichnofossils

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Genus Species Location Material Type Origin Notes Images

Planolites[7]

  • P. isp.
  • Colle di Sogno

Cylindrical burrows

Pascichnia

  • Polychaetes

Burrow-like ichnofossils referred to vermiform deposit-feeders. Sometimes considered a junior synonym of Palaeophycus.[11]

 
Planolites fossil

Molluscs

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Genus Species Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Bositra[1][4]

  • B. buchii
  • All the Formation

Shells

A posidoniid ostreoidan. The habitat and mode of life of Bositra has been debated for more than a century. There have been different interpretations, such as a pseudoplanktonic organism,[12] a benthic organism related to open marine floor, where it was the main inhabitant of the basinal settings, and a hybrid mode, where it has a life cycle with holopelagic reproduction controlled by the change on Oxygen levels, and even a chemosymbiotic lifestile, related to the large crinoid rafts, being the main "Safe conduct" to evade anoxic events. All the opinions along the years led to a large study in 1998, where the size/frequency distribution, the density of growth thanks to the lines related to the shell size and the position of the redox boundary by total organic carbon diagrams has revealed that Bositra probably had a benthic mode of life.[13]

 
Thousands of specimens in one matrix

Collina[1][4]

C. gemma

  • Mount Brughetto
  • Mount Cornizzolo

Shells

A Dactylioceratidae ammonite. Present and abundant on the Mediterranean Toarcian realm.

Cornaptychus[1][4]

C. lythensis

  • Mount Brughetto
  • Mount Cornizzolo
 Shells

An indeterminate ammonite. Some of the specimens found are very fragmentary, making its identification complex.[4]

 

Dactylioceras[1][4]

D. polymorphus

  • Mount Brughetto
  • Mount Cornizzolo
 Shells

Type member Dactylioceratinae family of Ammonites. A common mediterranean genera, found on deposits along all europe.

 

Harpoceras[1][4]

H. sp.

  • Mount Brughetto
  • Mount Cornizzolo
 Shells

Type reprensentative genus of the Harpoceratinae ammonite family

 

Hildaites[1][4]

H. sp.

  • Mount Brughetto
  • Mount Cornizzolo
 Shells

A Hildoceratidae ammonite

 

Mesodactylites[1][4]

  • M. sapphicus
  • M. sp.
  • Mount Brughetto
  • Mount Cornizzolo
 Shells

A Nodicoeloceratinae ammonite

Arthropods

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Genus Species Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

?Antrimpos[14][15]

?A. sp.

  • Mount Cornizzolo

1 complete specimen, MSNM i10852

A Penaeidae Decapodan.

 

Archaeopalinurus[16]

A. cfr. A. levis

  • Mount Cornizzolo

Various specimens

A Palinuroidean Decapodan.

 

Coleia[14]

C. cf.banzensis

  • Mount Cornizzolo

15 specimens, complete and incomplete

An Erymidae Decapodan.

?Etallonia[14][15]

?E. sp.

  • Mount Cornizzolo

Single Isolated chelae, MSNM i10855

An Axiidae Decapodan.

 

Gabaleryon[15]

G. garassinoi

  • Mount Brughetto
  • Mount Cornizzolo

Various specimens

A Coleiidae Decapodan. Was confussed with Proeryon hartmanni specimens.

Proeryon[1][14][16]

P. hartmanni

  • Mount Brughetto
  • Mount Cornizzolo

Various specimens

An Erymidae Decapodan Crustacean, common on the mediterranean rocks.

 

Uncina[17]

U. cf.posidoniae

U. alpina

  • Mount Cornizzolo

Isolated chelae, MSNM i10851, il0863, i10864

An Astacidean Decapodan of the family Uncinidae. A large decapodan, with sizes up to 40 cm.

 

Fish

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Genus Species Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Leptolepis[2][18]

  • L. coryphaenoides
  • L. sp.

Monte Cornizzolo

+100 specimens

Type member of the family Leptolepidae inside Leptolepiformes. It is the most abundant fish found on the formation.

 

Pachycormus[2][18]

  • P. sp.

Monte Cornizzolo

Several Especimens

The main member of the family Pachycormidae inside Pachycormiformes. Large sized fish, able to reach near 1.4 m long.

 

Pholidophorus[2][18]

  • P. sp.

Monte Cornizzolo

Several Especimens

Type member of the family Pholidophoridae inside Pachycormiformes. A small sized fish, mostly related to marine deposits, associated with various predatory behaviours, including coeloids and Crocodrylomorphs.

 

Crocodyliformes

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cf.Pelagosaurus[2]

cf. P. sp.

  • Monte Cornizzolo

Various specimens MSNM V4012, MSNM V4013.

A Thalattosuchian marine crocodrylomorph of the family Teleosauridae.The specimens found where of small size, with several characters such as opened neurocentral vertebral sutures and non sutured caudal pleurapophyses, that led to expeculate a possible juvenile or subadult status.

 

Flora

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Several plant leaves and fragments of wood were not identified.[18]

Genus Species Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images

Ginkgo[14][18]

  • G. digitata
  • Mount Brughetto
  • Mount Cornizzolo

Leaves

Affinities with the Ginkgoaceae. Arboreal plants related to the modern Ginkgo species.

 

Pagiophyllum[14][18]

  • P. kurri
  • Mount Brughetto
  • Mount Cornizzolo

Leaves

Affinities with the Cheirolepidiaceae and Araucariaceae. Arbustive to arboreal plants with several leaf morphotypes, probably from nearshore environments.

 

See also

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Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^ Bioturbed hazel-gray limestones in planar layers of about 20 cm, with concentration of gray flint and gray & reddish marls, along with calcareous marl.[1]

References

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