Monte Camposauro (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Campania, Italy (41.2° N, 14.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° N, 13.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified floatstone

• gastropod- and rudist-bearing floatstones intercalated with pellet wackestone and packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Carannante, D. Ruberti, L. Simone and M. Vigliotti. 2007. Cenomanian carbonate depositional settings: case histories from the central-southern Apennines (Italy). In R. W. Scott (ed.), Cretaceous rudists and carbonate platforms: environmental feedback, SEPM Special Publication 87:11-25 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84802: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.11.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Foraminifera
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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Caprina baylei Gemmellaro 1865 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Neocaprina gigantea Plenicar 1960 rudist
 Pectinida - Chondrodontidae
Chondrodonta sp. Stanton 1901 scallop
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873 snail
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
Acteonellidae indet. Gill 1871 snail