Where: Italy (42.3° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 13.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Vandanchella dercourti foram zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Unnamed formation: c'mon guys, you invented civilization twice, name your rock units!!!!
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal rudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: L. T. Groves. 1994. Jurassic and Cretaceous cypraeacean biogeography and paleontology, with an annotated list of the species. The Cowry 1(2):25-41 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180658: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Ovula striata" = Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) paronai, "Cypraea pustulifera n. sp." = Palaeocypraea (Pustulariopsis) pustulifera, "Cypraea retusa n. sp." = Palaeocypraea (Pustulariopsis) pustulifera
"Ovula striata" = Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) paronai Schilder 1932 cowry
"Cypraea pustulifera n. sp." = Palaeocypraea (Pustulariopsis) pustulifera Parona and Prever 1909 cowry
"Cypraea retusa n. sp." = Palaeocypraea (Pustulariopsis) pustulifera Parona and Prever 1909 cowry |