Where: Italy (43.5° N, 12.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 18.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maiolica Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 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 441-496: N. (T.) pachydicranus zone, upper Valanginian

• 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 65870: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 26.09.2006

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