Visogliano, Lower part of Zolla Member, Interval 6 (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.8° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zolla Member (Trieste Karst Limestone Formation), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Middle-Late Cenomanian

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; brown, gray limestone

• grey-brovm very fossiliferous limestones with bedding of decimetric period

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Caffau, N. Pugliese, and M. Plenicar. 1995. The development of the mollusc fauna in the Cenomanian of the stratigraphie sequence of Visogliano (Karst of Trieste, Italy). Geologija 37:87-121 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162493: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea fleuriausiana Orbigny 1847 scallop
 Pectinida - Chondrodontidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolites carsicus Caffau et al. 1995 rudist
Durania acuticostata n. sp. Caffau et al. 1995 rudist
Praeradiolites acutilamellosus Caffau et al. 1995 rudist
Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
 Thaumatoporellales -
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
 Miliolida - Meandropsinidae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae