Sample Ca 13 [Monte Cassio Flysch] (Cretaceous of Italy)

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

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Monotonous turbiditic sequences of calcarenites or calcareous sandstones, marls and hemipelagic shales. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of sample preparation.

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

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for foraminifera. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
Trochammina sp. Parker and Jones 1859
 Hormosinacea - Aschemocellidae
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
 Astrorhizacea - Rhabdamminidae
 Astrorhizacea - Rhizamminidae
 Lituolacea - Lituotubidae
 Textulariina - Astrorhizidae
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae