Cava Longo [Ciolo Limestone (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (40.1° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° N, 17.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ciolo Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Ciolo Limestone, which regionally unconformably overlies the Cesarea Limestone (Campanian). AGE: early Late Campanian, on the basis of Sr dating. Table 1 states ages of 72.8 Ma. Maastrichtian on the basis of microfossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine carbonate setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine-grained limestone, rich in bioclastic material, with high moldic porosity. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description and figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Schlüter et al.

• COLLECTORS: Schlüter et al. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: M. Schluter, T. Steuber, and M. Parente. 2008. Chronostratigraphy of Campanian-Maastrichtian platform carbonates and rudist associations of Salento (Apulia, Italy). Cretaceous Research 29:100-114 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82395: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to rudist bivalves and biostratigraphically useful microfossils. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with apparently modern nomenclature, though many taxa are not identified to species level.
unclassified
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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Textulariina - Dicyclinidae
Dicyclina schlumbergeri Munier-Chalmas 1887
 Textulariina - Dictyopsellidae
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
Orbitoides apiculata Schlumberger 1901
Orbitoides cf. media d'Archiac 1837
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Foraminifera
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Joufia reticulata Boehm 1897 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
? Sabinia sp. Parona 1908 rudist