Where: Italy (45.6° N, 11.1° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 18.7° N, 36.8° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Biancone Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• The section is about 9 m thick, with 28 beds. Beds 1-14: S. verrucosum zone, upper Valanginian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: focus on ammonites
Primary reference: P. Faraoni, D. Flore, A. Marini, G. Pallini, and N. Pezzoni. 1997. Valanginian and early Hauterivian ammonite successions in the Mt Catria group (Central Apennines) and the Lessini Mts (Southern Alps), Italy. Palaeopelagos 7:59-100 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 65589: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Lytoceras quadrisulcatum" = Protetragonites quadrisulcatus
"Lytoceras quadrisulcatum" = Protetragonites quadrisulcatus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
"Neolissoceras grasi" = Neolissoceras grasianum
"Neolissoceras grasi" = Neolissoceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Phyllopachyceras winkleri, "Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) tethys" = Euphylloceras thetys
Phyllopachyceras winkleri Uhlig 1882 ammonite
"Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) tethys" = Euphylloceras thetys d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite |