Series VS, Val Sorda (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (43.2° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudothurmannia angulicostata ammonoid zone, Maiolica Formation, Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Pseudothurmannia catulloi subzone; "Guide bed" of Faraoni level

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: authors' collections, but will be housed in the palaeontological branch of the Museum of the town of Cagli.

Primary reference: F. Cecca, P. Faragni, and A. Marini. 1998. Latest Hauterivian (Early Cretaceous) ammonites from Umbria-Marche Apennines (central Italy). Palaeontographia Italica 85:61-110 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168451: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Pseudovaldedorsella crassidorsata Karakash 1907 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Pseudothurmannia sp. Spath 1923 ammonite
Pseudothurmannia sarasini Sarkar 1955 ammonite