Murgia Ceraso, Bari (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (41.0° N, 16.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Senonian (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Tavani. 1958. Rudiste del Cretaceo delle Puglie (Italia meridionale) [Cretaceous rudists from Puglia]. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 3:170-177 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73473: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Apulites giganteus n. gen. n. sp. rudist