Also known as Bed 246
Where: Italy (43.6° N, 12.5° E: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 18.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maiolica Formation, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)
• SPECIFIC STRATIGRAPHY: Upper Hauterivian, Psedothurmannia angulicostata Zone.
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•GENERAL STRATIGRAPHY: The lower Cretaceous in the Umbria-Marche region is represented by two formations: (1) the Maiolica Fm (late Tithonian to early Aptian) consisting of limestones; and (2) the Scisti a Fucoidi Fm (early Aptian to Albian) consisting of marls. The lithologic boundary between the two fms is gradational and is placed at the uppermost black chert at the top of the Maiolica limestones. The section is numbered bed by bed starting from the base of Scisti a Fucoidi Fm downward through the Maiolica. The beds also carry metre level names.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, concretionary, white, cherty/siliceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,
• Data appears to have been recently collected by authors. Nannofossils and foraminifera presumably collected by bulk means.
Primary reference: F. Cecca, G. Pallini, E. Erba, I. Permoli-Silva, and R. Coccioni. 1994. Hauterivian-Barremian chronostratigraphy based on ammonites, nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera and magnetic chrons from the Mediterranean domain. Cretaceous Research 15:457-467 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50799: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Cephalopoda | |
Phyllopachyceras infundibulum, "Hypophylloceras tethys" = Euphylloceras thetys
Phyllopachyceras infundibulum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
"Hypophylloceras tethys" = Euphylloceras thetys d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
Pseudothurmannia belimelensis, Pseudothurmannia mortilleti, Pseudothurmannia angulicostata, "Emericiceras sp." = Crioceratites (Emericiceras)
Pseudothurmannia belimelensis Dimtrova 1967 ammonite
Pseudothurmannia mortilleti Pictet and de Loriol 1858 ammonite Subspecies: Pseudothrumannia mortilleti catulloi
Pseudothurmannia angulicostata d'Orbigny 1863 ammonite
"Emericiceras sp." = Crioceratites (Emericiceras) Sarkar 1954 ammonite | |
Psilotissotia sp. n. sp., Psilotissotia bertrandi, Psilotissotia (Buergliceras) favrei, Psilotissotia reigi
Psilotissotia sp. n. sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Psilotissotia bertrandi ammonite
Psilotissotia (Buergliceras) favrei Ooster 1860 ammonite
Psilotissotia reigi Nickles 1894 ammonite | |
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Acrioceras cf. tabarelli Astier 1851 ammonite | |
"Neolissoceras grasi" = Neolissoceras grasianum
"Neolissoceras grasi" = Neolissoceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite |