Monte Maggiore Mt., Napels (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Naples, Italy (41.2° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.8° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; limestone

• Open shelves: low-energy internal settings. Transitional settings.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: L. Simone, G. Carannante, D. Ruberti, M. Sirna, G. Sirna, A. Laviano, and M. Tropeano. 2003. Development of rudist lithosomes in the Coniacian-Lower Campanian carbonate shelves of central-southern Italy: high-energy vs low-energy settings. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 200:5-29 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162647: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 01.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Discorbidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
 Thaumatoporellales -
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Bournonia excavata d'Orbigny 1847 rudist
Biradiolites fissicostatus d'Orbigny 1847 rudist
Sauvagesia tenuicostata Polsak 1967 rudist
Medeella zignana Pirona 1869 rudist
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod