Monte delle Castagne, Section C, Facies C, second layer (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Lazio, Italy (41.6° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° N, 13.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lime mudstone and bindstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Primary reference: M. Brandano and M. Loche. 2014. The Coniacian–Campanian Latium–Abruzzi carbonate platform,an example of a facies mosaic. Facies 60:489-500 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163236: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 17.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959