Viggiano 1, CE assemblage: Cenomanian, Italy
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Hippuritida
- Caprinidae
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Sphaerucaprina forojuliensis
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Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Salerno |
| Coordinates: | 40.4° North, 15.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.6° North, 14.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Madonna di Viggiano | Local bed: | 1 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified floatstone |
| Lithology description: The Upper Cretaceous carbonate succession is mainly constituted of bioclastic and biointraclastic whitish limestone with a rich and well diversified fossil fauna typified by rudists, chondrodontids and nerineid gastropodes referable to the CE (Cenomanian) interval. | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: This outcrop is located in the eastern side of the Agri Valley, at the eastern side of the Agri Valley, at the easternmost part of the Mesozoic Apennine chain. Thickness of nearly 100 m. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 138409 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-01-17 04:11:55 | Last modified: | 2013-01-21 04:41:45 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2013-04-17 04:11:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 44299. | R. Cestari and A. Laviano. 2012. Rudist facies distribution in the late Cretaceous of Cilento and western Basilicata (southern Italy). Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 118(2):277-294 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |