Monte s. Angelo, lower interval (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Where: Naples, Italy (40.6° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; rudstone and floatstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Carannante, D. Ruberti, and G. Sirna. 1998. Senonian Rudist limestones in the Sorrento Peninsula sequences (southern Italy). Geobios 31(22):47-68 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162538: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 29.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Durania cornupastoris Des Moulins 1826 rudist
Biradiolites angulosus d'Orbigny 1850 rudist
 Thaumatoporellales -
Foraminifera
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
 Textulariina - Dicyclinidae
Dicyclina schlumbergeri Munier-Chalmas 1887
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
Nezzazatinella sp. Darmoian 1976
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
 Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
Foraminifera
  -
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Foraminifera
 Globigerinaceae - Globotruncanidae
Globotruncana sp. Cushman 1927