L'Aquila, Monti d'Ocre area (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (42.3° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 13.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vandanchella dercourti foram zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Unnamed formation: c'mon guys, you invented civilization twice, name your rock units!!!!

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal rudstone

• Mancinelli, Chiocchini & Coccia (2003) note that the gastropod bearing beds from Cenomanian rocks in sections in this area are biodetritic rudstones.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. T. Groves. 1994. Jurassic and Cretaceous cypraeacean biogeography and paleontology, with an annotated list of the species. The Cowry 1(2):25-41 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180658: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Cypraea pustulifera n. sp." = Palaeocypraea (Pustulariopsis) pustulifera Parona and Prever 1909 cowry
"Cypraea retusa n. sp." = Palaeocypraea (Pustulariopsis) pustulifera Parona and Prever 1909 cowry
"Ovula striata" = Palaeocypraea (Palaeocypraea) paronai Schilder 1932 cowry