Maratea village 1 (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Italy (40.0° N, 15.7° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 14.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• The succesion spans from the Cenomanian to the Coniacian (CE and CO intervals) and is overlain paraconformably by the Upper Palaeogene carbonates of the Trentinara Formtion.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, muddy floatstone

• The succesion is overlain paraconformably by the Upper Palaeogene carbonates of the Trentinara Formation.
• Whitish muddy limestone, partly dolomitized

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: R. Cestari and A. Laviano. 2012. Rudist facies distribution in the late Cretaceous of Cilento and western Basilicata (southern Italy). Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 118(2):277-294 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 138314: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.01.2013, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

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 Ichnofossils -
? Ophiomorpha sp., Thalassinoides sp.
? Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944