Visogliano, Lower part of Zolla Member, Interval 1 (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.8° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zolla Member (Trieste Karst Limestone Formation), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Middle-Late Cenomanian

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

• very fossiliferous black limestones and interbedded dark greyish dolostones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Caffau, N. Pugliese, and M. Plenicar. 1995. The development of the mollusc fauna in the Cenomanian of the stratigraphie sequence of Visogliano (Karst of Trieste, Italy). Geologija 37:87-121 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162437: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 25.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
 Thaumatoporellales -
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae