Cansiglio Platform, caprinid patch reef, Friuli (Cretaceous of Italy)

Also known as Reef 2002

Where: Italy (46.0° N, 12.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 20.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• earliest Aptian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• caprinid patch reef, about 1.5 m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. Sartorio. 1986. Caprinid patch reef in the Cansiglio inner platform carbonate sequence (southern Alps): A record of the earliest Aptian marine transgression. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 92(3):383-400 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67614: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Lithocodium aggregatum
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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
Glossomyophorus sp. Masse et al. 1984 rudist