Puez Plateau (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.6° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 20.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Puez Formation, Early/Lower Valanginian to Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 122.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; marl and limestone

• The Puez section consists essentially of red to grey calcareous marls and grey, silty marlstones of the Puez Formation (upper Valanginian to Aptian; 150-200 m) underlain by green-grey limestones of the biancone Formation (Lower Valanginian, 0-5 m) and red nodular limestones of the Ammonitico rosso (Tithonian to berriasian; 10-20 m). A remarkable feature of the middle part of the Puez Formation is the large number of cherty and calcareous concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Lukeneder. 2008. The ecological significance of solitary coral and bivalve epibionts on Lower Cretaceous (Valangianian–Aptian) ammonoids from the Italian Dolomites. Acta Geologica Polonica 58(4):425-436 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160725: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Sabellidae
Glomerula sp.
Glomerula sp. Brünnich Nielsen 1931
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Ancyloceras matheronianu
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceratites krenkeli
Crioceratites krenkeli Sarkar 1955 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Barremites psilotatus, Melchiorites cassioides
 Ammonitida - Silesitidae
Silesites vulpes
 Ammonitida - Protetragonitidae
Leptotetragonites honnoratianus
Leptotetragonites honnoratianus d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras subfimbriatum
Lytoceras subfimbriatum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras bontshevi, Phyllopachyceras infundibulum, "Phylloceras thetys" = Euphylloceras thetys
Phyllopachyceras bontshevi Manolov 1962 ammonite
Phyllopachyceras infundibulum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
"Phylloceras thetys" = Euphylloceras thetys d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis sp.
Placunopsis sp. Morris and Lycett 1853 scallop
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
? Cycloseris sp.
? Cycloseris sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral