Poggiardo limestone (Cretaceous of Italy)
Where: Apulien, Italy (40.0° N, 17.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 16.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified packstone
• The Poggiardo limestones are white, stratified, coarse biocalcarenites and biocalcirudutes with a packstone texture. The stratification is marked by rapid vertical changes in grain size, laminations or gradations.
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: N. Motchurova and E. T. Ruggiero. 2000. First occurence of the brachiopod family Erymnariidae Cooper in the upper Cretaceous of southern Italy. Palaeontology 43(1-3):173-197 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/M. Manojlovic]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37828: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 25.03.2004
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Costerymnaria apula Motchurova and Ruggiero 2000 | |