Monte Inici 57 (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Trapani, Italy (38.0° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 14.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rosso Ammonitico Formation, Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, red wackestone

• Nodules of the pseudo-nodular facies (with pseudo-nodular subfacies)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: F. Cecca, B. Savary, A. Bartolini, J. Remane, and F. Cordey. 2001. The Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Rosso Ammonitico succession of Monte Inici (Trapanese Domain, western Sicily): sedimentology, biostratigraphy and isotope stratigraphy. Bulletin de la Societé Géologique de France 172(5):647-659 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37035: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 24.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Ptychophylloceras ptychoicum
Ptychophylloceras ptychoicum Quenstedt 1845 ammonite