Monte Girifalco, Carseolani Mountains, radiolitid banks (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1940

Where: Italy (42.0° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 14.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, dolomitic wackestone and lithified, dolomitic lime mudstone

• 2 radiolitid banks (inter-supratidal)

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 67601: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
Cuneolina pavonia
subspecies parva
 Textulariina - Dicyclinidae
Dicyclina schlumbergeri Munier-Chalmas 1887
 Thaumatoporellales -