Where: Salerno, Italy (40.5° N, 15.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 15.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museo di Paleontologia di Napoli
Primary reference: S. Bravi and A. Garassino. 1998. Plattenkalk of the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Petina, in the Alburni Mounts (Campania, S Italy), and its decapod crustacean assemblage. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 138(1-2):89-118 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127349: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 10.05.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Portunidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 swimming crab | |
Palinurus sp. Weber 1795 spiny lobster | |
Alburnia petinensis n. gen. n. sp.
Alburnia petinensis n. gen. n. sp. Bravi and Garassino 1998 shrimp | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar | |
Prochanos cf. rectifrons Bassani 1879 bonefish | |
Pycnodontiformes indet. Berg 1937 | |
Coelodus sp. Haeckel | |
Equisetopsida | |
Pagiophyllum sp. Heer 1881 | |
? Podozamites sp. Braun 1843 podocarp | |
Zamites sp. Brongniart 1828 |