Cima delle Murelle, Montagna della Maiella, Caprinid biostromes (Cretaceous of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1304

Where: Italy (42.1° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 13.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cima delle Murelle Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• Cenomanian-?Turonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified grainstone

• external platform caprinid biostromes with open fabric; up to more than 5 m thick
• matrix: bioclastic grainstones; thick biostromes contain lenses of bioclastic rudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. Sanders. 1996. Rudist biostromes on the margin of an isolated carbonate platform: The Upper Cretaceous of Montagna della Maiella, Italy. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 89(2):845-871 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67095: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Corals, hydrozoans and algae reported to be present, but not listed.
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites bicarinatus" = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites bicarinatus" = Icthyosarcolites rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
"Caprina carinata" = Caprina baylei Gemmellaro 1865 rudist
Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
 Textulariina - Dicyclinidae
Dicyclina schlumbergeri Munier-Chalmas 1887
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
 Miliolida - Soritidae
 Miliolida - Meandropsinidae
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina sp. Paalzow 1922
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -