Pizzo Croce area, section 1, lithofacies C, first layer (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Sicily, Italy (38.2° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 11.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone and packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Di Stefano and D. Ruberti. 2000. Cenomanian Rudist-dominated shelf-margin limestones from the Panormide Carbonate Platform (Sicily, Italy): facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy. Facies 42:133-160 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162537: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 29.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Lituolidae indet. de Blainville 1825
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Alveolinidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Thaumatoporellales -
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Chondrodontidae
Chondrodonta sp. Stanton 1901 scallop
Sellialveolina viallii
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