Also known as Pietraroja
Where: Benevento, Italy (41.3° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 16.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: Museo Paleontologia di Napoli
Primary reference: S. Bravi and A. Garassino. 1998. New biostratigraphic and palaeoecologic observations on the "Plattenkalk" of the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Pietraroia (Benevento, S Italy), and its decapod crustaceans assemblage. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 138(1-2):119-171 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 127350: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 10.05.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Huxleycaris beneventana n. gen. n. sp.
Huxleycaris beneventana n. gen. n. sp. Bravi and Garassino 1998 decapod | |
Astacidea indet., Parvocaris samnitica n. gen. n. sp.
Astacidea indet. Latreille 1802 decapod
Parvocaris samnitica n. gen. n. sp. Bravi and Garassino 1998 shrimp | |
Micropenaeus tenuirostris n. gen. n. sp.
Micropenaeus tenuirostris n. gen. n. sp. Bravi and Garassino 1998 decapod |