Val Caltea (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Where: Pordenone, Italy (46.2° N, 12.5° E: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 14.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcari del Cellina Formation, Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 72.1 Ma)

• These limestones are related to Calcari del Cellina, one of the three units of Calcari di Monte Cavallo. The microbiofacies includes Broeckina biplana, Dicyclina sp., Nezzazata simplex, Nezzazatinella picardi, rudists, ostracods, rare corals, algae and decapods. The micro- and macropalaeontological contents of Calcari del Cellina suggest an Aptian-Campanian age (Lower/Upper Cretaceous) (Candii et al., 2000).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Friuliano di Storia Naturale di Udine (MFSN)

Primary reference: A. De Angeli and A. Garassino. 2006. New reports of decapod crustaceans from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (NE Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 147(2):267-294 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127491: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 16.05.2012

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Galatheidae
Calteagalathea friulana n. gen. n. sp.
Calteagalathea friulana n. gen. n. sp. De Angeli and Garassino 2006 decapod