Ruvo di Puglia, Bari Limestone, patch reef (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1963

Where: Italy (41.1° N, 16.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bari Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian to Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)

• middle part of unit A

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• patch reef
• biolithite and biomicrosparite

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Iannone and A. Laviano. 1980. Studio stratigrafico e paleoambientale di una successione Cenomaniano-Turoniana (Calcare di Bari) affiorante presso Ruvo di Puglia [Stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental study of a Cenomanian-Turonian succession (Bari Limestones) outcrops near Ruvo di Puglia]. Geologica Romana 19:209-230 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67617: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Protozoa
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Stomiosphaera sp. Wanner 1940
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae