Sample Ca 2 [Monte Cassio Flysch] (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (44.5° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 12.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tetralithus trifidus nannofossil zone, Monte Cassio Flysch Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Monte Cassio Flysch. AGE: Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian in text; placed by enterer in Late Campanian on the basis of stratigraphic position; Tetralithus trifidus nannofossil zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near base of the Monte Cassio Flysch.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Monotonous turbiditic sequences of calcarenites or calcareous sandstones, marls and hemipelagic shales. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of sample preparation.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Morlotti

Collection methods: bulk, peroxide, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: E. Morlotti. REPOSOTORY: Not stated in text, but probably Parma University, Italy,

Primary reference: E. Morlotti. 1988. Late Cretaceous flysch-type agglutinated foraminifera from the Northern Italian Apennines. Abh Geol B-A 41:265-285 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91387: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.09.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for foraminifera. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
 Lituolida - Rzehakinidae
Rzehakina sp.
Rzehakina sp. Cushman 1927
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
Trochammina sp.
Trochammina sp. Parker and Jones 1859
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
Bathysiphon brosgei, Bathysiphon vitta, Bathysiphon californicus, Bathysiphon discretus
 Astrorhizacea - Rhabdamminidae
Rhabdammina cylindrica, Rhabdammina latissima, Rhabdammina robusta
 Astrorhizacea - Rhizamminidae
Rhizammina algaeformis, Rhizammina indivisa
 Lituolacea - Lituotubidae
Trochamminoides conglombatus, Trochamminoides coronatus, Trochamminoides proteus
 Textulariina - Astrorhizidae
Hippocrepina depressa
 Ammodiscoidea - Saccamminidae
Saccammina sp., Saccammina placenta
Saccammina sp. Sars in Carpenter 1869