La Costa Mountain, Matese Mts.: Late/Upper Cenomanian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Durania montislacostae n. sp.
Sauvagesia nicaisei
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
Ichthyosarcolites bicarinatus
corrected as Icthyosarcolites
Ichthyosarcolites tricarinatus Parona 1921
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Caprina carinata (Boehm 1892)
synonym of Caprina baylei
Schiosia paolae
Sphaerucaprina forojuliensis
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Apricardia carentonensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys acuminatus (Geinitz 1845)
synonym of Chlamys subacuta
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Neithea aequicostata (Lamarck 1819)
recombined as Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 41.5° North, 14.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.0° North, 13.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: rudist and coral patch-reefs
Environment:platform/shelf-margin reef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 1939
Database number:74197
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-07-30 04:26:45 Last modified:2007-07-30 07:26:45
Access level:the public Released:2007-07-30 04:26:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24912. M. Mainelli. 1992. Durania montislacostae n. sp. in the Upper Cenomanian of La Costa Mountain (Matese-Italy). Geologica Romana 28:79-85 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]