Ciolo Cove [Ciolo Limestone (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (39.8° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 27.5° N, 16.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ciolo Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Ciolo Limestone, which regionally unconformably overlies the Cesarea Limestone (Campanian) and is truncated by the Castro Limestone (Late Oligocene). AGE: Late Maastrichtian, on the basis of Sr dating. Table 1 states ages of 66.4 Ma. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine carbonate setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Coarse-grained bioclastic grainstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description and figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

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 82398: 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.
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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
? Sabinia sp.
? Sabinia sp. Parona 1908 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippurites cornucopiae, Hippuritella lapeirousei, Pironaea polystyla
Hippurites cornucopiae Defrance 1821 rudist
Hippuritella lapeirousei Goldfuss 1840 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Mitrocaprina sp.
Mitrocaprina sp. Boehm 1895 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
aff. Pseudosabinia sp., Joufia reticulata, Petkovicia sp., Pseudopolyconites sp.
aff. Pseudosabinia sp. Morris and Skelton 1995 rudist
Joufia reticulata Boehm 1897 rudist
Petkovicia sp. Kühn and Pejovic 1959 rudist
Pseudopolyconites sp. Milovanovic 1935 rudist
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Lepidorbitoides socialis
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
Siderolites calcitrapoides
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
Orbitoides gensacica, Orbitoides apiculata, Omphalocyclus macroporus
Orbitoides apiculata Schlumberger 1901
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Contusotruncana contusa
 Globigerinaceae - Heterohelicidae
Racemiguembelina fructicosa