Where: Italy (43.5° N, 12.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° N, 18.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Maiolica Formation, Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)
• From a total of 125 m thickness, 440 beds have been numbered down from the "Faraoni level" of the Upper Hauterivian (bed 69). The sampling stopped after finding the faunas of the Upper Valanginian beds. Beds 110-192: ?P. ligatus zone, upper Hauterivian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: focus on ammonites
Primary reference: P. Faraoni, A. Marini, and G. Pallini. 1995. The Hauterivian ammonite succession in the Central Apennines, Maiolica formation (Petrano Mt., Cagli). Preliminary results. Palaeopelagos 5:227-236 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 65614: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Ptychoceras meyrati" = Euptychoceras meyrati
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