Also known as Reef 1956

Where: Italy (40.7° N, 17.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.4° N, 17.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Laviano. 1984. Preliminary observations on the Upper Cretaceous coral-rudist facies of Ostuni (south-eastern Murge, Apulia). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 90(2):177-204 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74801: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.08.2007

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