Ricetto, Carseolani Mountains, foreslope facies: Late Santonian - Campanian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Globotruncanidae
Globotruncana sp. Cushman 1927
Calcarinidae
Siderolites sp.
Orbitoididae
Orbitoides sp.
Cuneolinidae
Cuneolina sp.
Protozoa
Stomiosphaera sp. Wanner 1940
unclassified
Phitonella sp.
Textularidae indet.
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Gorjanovicia paronai
Gorjanovicia cf. costata
Sauvagesia sp. Bayle 1886
Durania sp. Douvillé 1908
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 13.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.6° North, 14.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian - Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6 - Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Late Santonian - Campanian
Age range of interval: 86.3 - 72.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified grainstone
Secondary lithology: lithified packstone
Lithology description: 70 m thick
Environment:slope
Geology comments: foreslope to slope
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:67596
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-11-27 01:24:43 Last modified:2006-11-27 03:24:44
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-27 01:24:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19260. G. Mariotti. 1982. Alcune facies a Rudiste dei Monti Carseolani: descrizione e correlazione dal bordo occidentale all'interno della piattaforma laziale-abruzzese [Some rudist facies in the Carseolani Mountains; description and correlation on the western border of the Latium-Abruzzi internal platform]. Geologica Romana 21:885-902 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]