Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by composition]
6. inorganic material
7. rock (inorganic material)
8. sedimentary rock
9. [sedimentary rock by composition]
10. carbonate rock
11. limestone
12. [limestone by composition]
13. [limestone by composition: aggregate type]
14. fossiliferous limestone

Anotations

Scope note:

An easily worked yellow-brown fossiliferous limestone quarried in the Berici Hills south of Vicenza. It has been used since ancient times as a building and ornamental stone; the cathedral of Padua is a pietra di Nanto construction.