La Costa Mountain, Matese Mts. (Cretaceous of Italy)

Also known as Reef 1939

Where: Italy (41.5° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 13.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• rudist and coral patch-reefs

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Mainelli. 1992. Durania montislacostae n. sp. in the Upper Cenomanian of La Costa Mountain (Matese-Italy). Geologica Romana 28:79-85 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74197: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys acuminatus" = Chlamys subacuta
"Chlamys acuminatus" = Chlamys subacuta Lamarck 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata Lamarck 1819 scallop
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites bicarinatus" = Icthyosarcolites, Ichthyosarcolites tricarinatus
"Ichthyosarcolites bicarinatus" = Icthyosarcolites rudist
Ichthyosarcolites tricarinatus Parona 1921 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
"Caprina carinata" = Caprina baylei Gemmellaro 1865 rudist
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae