Ricetto, Carseolani Mountains, foreslope facies (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Where: Italy (42.2° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° N, 14.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified grainstone and lithified packstone

• foreslope to slope
• 70 m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: G. Mariotti. 1982. Alcune facies a Rudiste dei Monti Carseolani: descrizione e correlazione dal bordo occidentale all'interno della piattaforma laziale-abruzzese [Some rudist facies in the Carseolani Mountains; description and correlation on the western border of the Latium-Abruzzi internal platform]. Geologica Romana 21:885-902 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67596: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Protozoa
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Stomiosphaera sp. Wanner 1940
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Globigerinaceae - Globotruncanidae
Globotruncana sp. Cushman 1927
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Sauvagesia sp. Bayle 1886 rudist
Durania sp. Douvillé 1908 rudist