Where: Campania, Italy (40.6° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.5° N, 6.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Turonian to Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 83.6 Ma)
• 200 m thick, maybe extending into the Early Campanian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone and lithified floatstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. Ruberti, G. Carannante, L. Simone, G. Sirna, and M. Sirna. 2007. Sedimentary processes and biofacies of Late Cretaceous low-energy carbonate ramp systems (southern Italy). In R. W. Scott (ed.), Cretaceous rudists and carbonate platforms: environmental feedback, SEPM Special Publication 87:57-70 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84807: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Foraminifera | |
Dicyclina schlumbergeri Munier-Chalmas 1887 | |
Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera Raineri 1922 | |
Cyanophyceae | |
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"Cayeuxia" sp. Frollo 1938 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bournonia excavata, Rajka spinosa, Biradiolites angulosissimus, Biradiolites angulosus, Sauvagesia tenuicostata, Durania cornupastoris
Bournonia excavata d'Orbigny 1847 rudist
Rajka spinosa rudist
Biradiolites angulosissimus rudist
Biradiolites angulosus d'Orbigny 1850 rudist
Sauvagesia tenuicostata Polsak 1967 rudist
Durania cornupastoris Des Moulins 1826 rudist | |
Apricardia cf. pachiniana rudist |