Monte Albenza, Bergamo (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.8° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 18.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maiolica Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• marly limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Vialli. 1949. Nuova fauna ad ammoniti del Barremiano superiore Lombardo [A new Upper Barremian ammonite fauna from Lombardy]. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 88:35-64 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71828: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Palaehoplitidae indet.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
? Lima sp.
? Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pulchelliidae
? Pulchellia favrei
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Kossmatella cf. agassiziana
Kossmatella cf. agassiziana Pictet and Roux 1847 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Protetragonitidae
"Lytoceras (? Protetragonites) cf. annibal" = Protetragonites
"Lytoceras (? Protetragonites) cf. annibal" = Protetragonites ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Desmoceras (Barremites) strettostoma" = Barremitites strettostoma, Desmoceras sp., Puzosia cf. ligata, Puzosia (Callizoniceras) aff. plicatulum, "Puzosia cf. matheroni" = Pseudohaploceras matheroni
"Desmoceras (Barremites) strettostoma" = Barremitites strettostoma Uhlig 1883 ammonite
Desmoceras sp. Zittel 1884 ammonite
"Puzosia cf. matheroni" = Pseudohaploceras matheroni d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Silesitidae
Silesites seranonis
Silesites seranonis d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Holcodiscus vandenheckei
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras phaestus, Lytoceras densifimbriatum, Lytoceras puezanum, Lytoceras cf. raricinctum, Lytoceras sp.
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
"Toxoceras annulare" = Crioceratites
"Toxoceras annulare" = Crioceratites ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
"Thurmannites aff. thurmanni" = Thurmanniceras, "Thurmannites sp." = Thurmanniceras
"Thurmannites aff. thurmanni" = Thurmanniceras ammonite
"Thurmannites sp." = Thurmanniceras Cossmann 1901 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Heteroceratidae
Heteroceras astieri, Heteroceras sp., ? Heteroceras sp.
Heteroceras sp. d'Orbigny 1849 ammonite
? Heteroceras sp. d'Orbigny 1849 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ptychoceratidae
Ptychoceras puzosianum
Ptychoceras puzosianum d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acrioceratidae
"Leptoceras silesiacum" = Toxoceratoides silesiacum
"Leptoceras silesiacum" = Toxoceratoides silesiacum Uhlig 1883 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Ancyloceras sp.
Ancyloceras sp. d'Orbigny 1842 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
"Aconeceras aff. nisus" = Aconeceras nisum
"Aconeceras aff. nisus" = Aconeceras nisum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Phylloceras (Phyllopachyceras) infundibulum" = Phyllopachyceras infundibulum, "Phylloceras (Macrophylloceras) winkleri" = Phyllopachyceras winkleri, Phylloceras ernesti, "Phylloceras thetys" = Euphylloceras thetys
"Phylloceras (Phyllopachyceras) infundibulum" = Phyllopachyceras infundibulum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
"Phylloceras (Macrophylloceras) winkleri" = Phyllopachyceras winkleri Uhlig 1882 ammonite
"Phylloceras thetys" = Euphylloceras thetys d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonoidea -
Aptychus angulicostatus
 Ammonoidea - Macroscaphitidae
Macroscaphites cf. yvani, "Costidiscus grebenianus" = Macroscaphites (Costidiscus), "Costidiscus recticostatus" = Macroscaphites (Costidiscus) recticostatus
Macroscaphites cf. yvani Puzos 1831 ammonite
"Costidiscus grebenianus" = Macroscaphites (Costidiscus) ammonite
"Costidiscus recticostatus" = Macroscaphites (Costidiscus) recticostatus d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonoidea - Hamulinidae
? Hamulina sp., "Hamulina subcylindrica" = Anahamulina subcylindrica
? Hamulina sp. d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
"Hamulina subcylindrica" = Anahamulina subcylindrica d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
"Belemnites (Hibolites) pistilliformis" = Vaunagites pistilliformis
"Belemnites (Hibolites) pistilliformis" = Vaunagites pistilliformis Blainville 1827 belemnite