Macrodon whitei Gemmellaro, 1892
Original source
Gemmellaro (1892): 7.
Type stratum and age
“Calcare grossolano con Fusulina ”; Wordian to upper Permian (Sanfilippo et al. 2017).
Type locality
“ Pietra di Salomone ”; 3 km S of Palazzo Adriano, Palermo, Italy.
Type material
Gemmellaro did not designate types. His description is based on two syntypes, but only the steinkern of a RV illustrated in Gemmellaro (1896) is stored at the Museo Geologico Università Palermo, Italy (MGUP-001.265).
Remarks
Only briefly described in Gemmellaro (1892: 7); extended description and illustration in Gemmellaro (1896: 23 [misprinted as “197”], pl. 21 fig. 7).
Publication Date: 2026-06-04