La Mandra, SA assemblage (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Where: Italy (40.2° N, 16.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.5° N, 15.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, muddy floatstone

• Along the path near La Mandra locality, the rudist fauna is scarce and marked by a paucispecific oligotypic radiolitid assemblage.
• Scatered carbonate outcrops, the succession ist nearly 100 m thick, dipping nearly 10° east and marked by greysh, well bedded limestone with prevalent mud-supported texture, bearing few fossiliferous beds.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. Cestari and A. Laviano. 2012. Rudist facies distribution in the late Cretaceous of Cilento and western Basilicata (southern Italy). Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 118(2):277-294 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 138395: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.01.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolites dario, Sauvagesia tenuicostata, Bournonia fascicularis
Radiolites dario Catullo 1834 rudist
Sauvagesia tenuicostata Polsak 1967 rudist
Bournonia fascicularis Pirona 1869 rudist