Monte delle Castagne, Section E, Facies A, first layer (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Lazio, Italy (41.6° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° N, 13.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; wackestone and floatstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Primary reference: M. Brandano and M. Loche. 2014. The Coniacian–Campanian Latium–Abruzzi carbonate platform,an example of a facies mosaic. Facies 60:489-500 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163241: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 17.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae sp. Ehrenberg 1839
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
 Textulariina - Dicyclinidae
Thaumatoporellales
 Thaumatoporellales -
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Gorjanovicia sp. Polsak 1967 rudist
Radiolites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist
Biradiolites sp. d'Orbigny 1850 rudist
Sauvagesia sp. Bayle 1886 rudist
Durania sp. Douvillé 1908 rudist
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod