Rocca di Cave I, Latium (Cretaceous of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1330

Where: Italy (41.9° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified rudstone

• rudist rudstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Carbone and G. Sirna. 1981. Upper Cretaceous reef models from Rocca di Cave and adjacent areas in Latium, central Italy. in D. F. Toomey, ed., European fossil reef models. SEPM Special Publication 30:427-445 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74624: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Pycnoporidium sp. Yabe and Toyama 1928
Marinella sp. Pfender 1939
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
"Ethelia alba" = Polystrata alba
"Ethelia alba" = Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites bicarinatus" = Icthyosarcolites, "Ichthyosarcolites poljaki" = Icthyosarcolites, "Ichthyosarcolites rotundus" = Icthyosarcolites, Ichthyosarcolites tricarinatus
"Ichthyosarcolites bicarinatus" = Icthyosarcolites rudist
"Ichthyosarcolites poljaki" = Icthyosarcolites rudist
"Ichthyosarcolites rotundus" = Icthyosarcolites rudist
Ichthyosarcolites tricarinatus Parona 1921 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
"Caprina carinata" = Caprina baylei Gemmellaro 1865 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Neocaprina gigantea Plenicar 1960 rudist
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata Lamarck 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Chondrodontidae
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae