Sveti Damjan section, Island of Cres, Rudist floatstone-rudstones, Facies C (Cretaceous of Croatia)

Where: Croatia (44.7° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 14.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Lower to Middle Cenomanian

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; floatstone and rudstone

• Rudist floatstone-rudstones composed mainly of recumbent rudist morphotypes

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Korbar, L. Fucek, A. Husinec, I. Vlahovic, N. Ostric, D. Maticec, and V. Jelaska. 2001. Cenomanian Carbonate Facies and Rudists along Shallow Intraplatform Basin Margin - the Island of Cres (Adriatic Sea, Croatia). Facies 45:39-58 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181599: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.09.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
"Caprina carinata" = Caprina baylei Gemmellaro 1865 rudist
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Sauvagesia sp. Bayle 1886 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Neocaprina sp. Plenicar 1961 rudist