..., and taphonomic signatures, such as the orientation and degree of abrasion, encrustation, and bioerosion. The first assemblage (Ardara) is characterized by a low-diversity echinoid fauna, consisting exclusively of the two clypeasteroid genera, Amphiope and different morphotypes of Clypeaster . This deposit...

...FIGURE 9 —Plan view of a slab from the scutellid mass accumulation at Alahan section showing both right side up and upside down specimens of the sand dollars Amphiope and Parascutella ...

... with the scutellid Amphiope within conglomeratic levels of the lower Miocene Mores Formation, which represents littoral environments with moderate energy conditions (Mancosu and Nebelsick, 2013 ). A single test was also found in lower–middle Miocene fine-grained sandstones of Porto Torres associated...

... leuée »). Upslope there is a fifteen metre-thick cliff with metre-sized strata of cross-bedded calcareous sandstone ( Fig. 5 b; e.g. , 44° 35’ 30.7" N; 0° 16’ 51.3" W; 3 and 4 in Fig. 2 ) that is rich in Ostrea and contains Scutella bonali and Amphiope ovalifera of the Burdigalian (Lower Miocene...