Monte s. Angelo, upper interval (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Naples, Italy (40.6° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 7.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; packstone and grainstone

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 162539: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 29.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
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Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804
  -
 Textulariina - Dicyclinidae
Dicyclina schlumbergeri Munier-Chalmas 1887
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
Nezzazatinella sp. Darmoian 1976
 Textulariina - Pfenderinidae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
 Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Thaumatoporellales -
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Bournonia excavata d'Orbigny 1847 rudist
Sauvagesia tenuicostata Polsak 1967 rudist