Rocca di Cave II, Latium (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1329

Where: Italy (41.9° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified limestone

• coral-rudist bioherms

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Carbone and G. Sirna. 1981. Upper Cretaceous reef models from Rocca di Cave and adjacent areas in Latium, central Italy. in D. F. Toomey, ed., European fossil reef models. SEPM Special Publication 30:427-445 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74625: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites sulcatus Defrance 1821 rudist
Hippurites colliciatus Woodward 1855 rudist
 Hippuritida - Trechmannellidae
Dictyoptychus sp. Douvillé 1905 rudist
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral