Ricetto, Carseolani Mountains, Rudist biostrome (Cretaceous of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1941

Where: Italy (42.2° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 13.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

• Hippuritid and coral biostrome (platform edge), 4-5 m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: G. Mariotti. 1982. Alcune facies a Rudiste dei Monti Carseolani: descrizione e correlazione dal bordo occidentale all'interno della piattaforma laziale-abruzzese [Some rudist facies in the Carseolani Mountains; description and correlation on the western border of the Latium-Abruzzi internal platform]. Geologica Romana 21:885-902 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67594: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
Cuneolina pavonia
subspecies parva
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Thaumatoporellales -
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Columastreidae
"cf. Columnastraea sp." = Columastrea
"cf. Columnastraea sp." = Columastrea d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
"Clausastraea sp." = Clausastrea
"Clausastraea sp." = Clausastrea d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
Elasmocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
"Actaeonella sp." = Acteonella
"Actaeonella sp." = Acteonella d'Orbigny 1843 snail
[entered as Acteonella sp.]
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Gorjanovicia sp. Polsak 1967 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
"Plagioptychus paradoxus" = Plagioptychus aguilloni
"Plagioptychus paradoxus" = Plagioptychus aguilloni d'Orbigny 1840 rudist