Santa Cesarea, Salentine Peninsula, Apulia (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Also known as Reef 3108

Where: Italy (40.0° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 17.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone and lithified lime mudstone

• biostrome near the platform-edge
• microbioclastic mudstone-wackestone to local rudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Cestari and G. Sirna. 1987. Rudist fauna in the Maastrichtian deposits of southern Salento (southern Italy). Memorie della Societa Geologica Italiana 40:133-147 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67085: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.11.2006, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Echinoidea
 Echinoida -
Echinoida indet. Troschel 1872 sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Mitrocaprina bulgarica Tzankov 1965 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Joufia reticulata Boehm 1897 rudist
Radiolitella maestrichtiana Pejovic 1968 rudist
Bournonia excavata d'Orbigny 1847 rudist
Lapeirousia sp. Bayle 1878 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippurites colliciatus Woodward 1855 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Acteonidae indet. d'Orbigny 1835 snail
Trochactaeon sp. Meek 1863 snail
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873 snail