Pizzo Croce area, section 2, lithofacies C (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Sicily, Italy (38.2° N, 13.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone and packstone

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 163161: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.10.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Chondrodontidae
Chondrodonta sp.
Chondrodonta sp. Stanton 1901 scallop
Foraminifera
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
Peneroplis cf. parvus
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
Nezzazata cf. gyra, Nezzazata simplex
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Orbitolina conica, Orbitolina concave
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
Cuneolina sp., Cuneolina pavonia
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Lituolidae indet., Textulariidae indet.
Lituolidae indet. de Blainville 1825
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Alveolinidae indet.
Alveolinidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet.
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Chrysalidina gradate
 Thaumatoporellales -
Thaumatoporella sp.
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella cf. irregularis
Sellialveolina viallii
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Sellialveolina viallii