Sorrento Peninsula (Cretaceous to of Italy)

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

• peloidal wackestones, bioclastic peloidal wackestones-packstones with foraminiferans and Thaumatoporella, rudist floatstone to rudstone and bafflestone (with rudist biostromes) in a matrix of coarse skeletal packstone-grainstone

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

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Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Foraminifera
  -
 Textulariina - Dicyclinidae
Dicyclina schlumbergeri Munier-Chalmas 1887
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Textulariina - Pfenderinidae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Thaumatoporellales -
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959
listed as Bacinella/Lithocodium
  -
"Cayeuxia" sp. Frollo 1938
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Bournonia excavata d'Orbigny 1847 rudist
Biradiolites angulosus d'Orbigny 1850 rudist
Sauvagesia tenuicostata Polsak 1967 rudist
Durania cornupastoris Des Moulins 1826 rudist
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae