Where: Sicily, Italy (38.2° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 11.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained grainstone and lithified, coarse-grained rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Di Stefano and D. Ruberti. 2000. Cenomanian Rudist-dominated shelf-margin limestones from the Panormide Carbonate Platform (Sicily, Italy): facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy. Facies 42:133-160 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 163158: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Caprinidae indet. d'Orbigny 1850 rudist | |
Foraminifera | |
Orbitolinidae indet. Martin 1890 |