Pietrasecca, Carseolani Mountains, biostrome (Cretaceous of Italy)

Also known as Reef 3476

Where: Italy (42.1° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 13.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithified framestone

• 1 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

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 67597: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.11.2006

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