Cima delle Murelle, Montagna della Maiella, Hippuritid biostromes (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1305

Where: Italy (42.1° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° N, 13.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cima delle Murelle Formation, Turonian to Turonian (93.9 - 86.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone and lithified grainstone

• external platform hippuritid biostromes with commonly packed fabric; 1-3 to more than 6 m thick
• biostrome matrix: bioclastic floatstone to wackestone; intercalations of bioclastic grainstone and rudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. Sanders. 1996. Rudist biostromes on the margin of an isolated carbonate platform: The Upper Cretaceous of Montagna della Maiella, Italy. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 89(2):845-871 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67096: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Corals, hydrozoans, gastropods and algae reported to be present, but not listed.
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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Jerinella klinae, Sauvagesia tenuicostata, Distefanella bassanii, Distefanella raricostata, Distefanella lombricalis, Distefanella spadai, Distefanella douvillei, Milovanovicia dobrunensis, Milovanovicia bosniaca
Sauvagesia tenuicostata Polsak 1967 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippurites socialis, Hippurites colliciatus, Vaccinites sulcatus
Hippurites colliciatus Woodward 1855 rudist
Vaccinites sulcatus Defrance 1821 rudist
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
Cuneolina pavonia
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Montcharmontia cf. apenninica
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
cf. Murgella sp.