Locality C (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (40.4° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 15.0° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, conglomeratic limestone

Primary reference: I. Dieni, F. A. Middlemiss, and E. F. Owen. 1973. The Lower Cretaceous Brachiopods of east-central Sardinia. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 12(2):166-216 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/F. Fursich]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12774: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Danica Hempfling on 13.12.2001, edited by Franz Fursich

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
"Leopoldia leopoldina" = Leopoldia leopoldinus
"Leopoldia leopoldina" = Leopoldia leopoldinus d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Spitidiscus rotula Sowerby 1827 ammonite
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras pseudoelegans d'Orbigny 1841 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaera corrugata Sowerby 1822 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Aetostreon couloni" = Exogyra (Aetostreon)
"Aetostreon couloni" = Exogyra (Aetostreon) oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
"Lamellaerhynchia renauxiana" = Sulcirhynchia renauxiana d'Orbigny 1847
"Lamellaerhynchia" renauxiana
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Belbekella rotundicosta Jacob and Fallot 1913
 Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
Oblongarcula sp. Elliott 1959
"Oblongarcula" sp.
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae