Where: Italy (44.5° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 10.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Monte Cassio Flysch Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Monte Cassio Flysch. AGE: Early Maastrichtian in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From upper part of the Monte Cassio Flysch.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Morlotti
Collection methods: bulk, peroxide, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: E. Morlotti. REPOSOTORY: Not stated in text, but probably Parma University, Italy,
Primary reference: E. Morlotti. 1988. Late Cretaceous flysch-type agglutinated foraminifera from the Northern Italian Apennines. Abh Geol B-A 41:265-285 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91388: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.09.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram | |
Trochammina sp. Parker and Jones 1859 | |