Where: Italy (40.5° N, 15.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 14.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified rudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: R. Cestari and A. Laviano. 2012. Rudist facies distribution in the late Cretaceous of Cilento and western Basilicata (southern Italy). Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 118(2):277-294 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 138398: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 17.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda sp. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Vaccinites fortisi rudist |