Late Triassic Magneto-biostratigraphy from Sicily

The aim of this study is to contribute to the development of an integrated geologic time scale for the Late Triassic that relates marine and nonmarine facies using the global record of geomagnetic polarity reversals. The 427 m-thick Upper Triassic ma- rine limestone section at Pizzo Mondello in the Sicani Mountains of western Sicily is characterized by high quality of exposure, accessibility, and stratigraphic continu- ity. Magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data from Pizzo Mondello are presented and correlated with the Newark reference sequence of polarity reversals.