Padtriciano locality, Interval 4 (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (45.7° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 13.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; gray limestone

• Grey limestone which, in the upper part, presents thin lenses of breccia characterized by angulose light-grey muddy centimetric clasts in a mudstone-wackestone matrix. The main microfacies is a mudstone with characean gyrogonites.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Caffau, M. Plenicar, N. Pugliese and K. Drobne. 1998. Late Maastrichtian Rudists and microfossils in the Karst Region (NE Italy and Slovenia). Geobios 22:37-46 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154926: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.03.2014

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Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Rhapydioninidae
Rhapydionina liburnica
rare specimens
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nonionidae indet. Schultze 1854