ammonites
Civita di Pietraroja (upper plattenkalk) (Cretaceous of Italy)

Also known as Pietraroia

Where: Campania, Italy (41.3° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 15.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• upper Plattenkalk

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); gray, cherty/siliceous mudstone and shelly/skeletal wackestone

• "intraplatform anoxic basin" - three possible models: lagoon, slope/shallow basin, and submarine channel
• cherty limestone (plattenkalk), "calcari selciferi ed ittiolitiferi"; "fine laminated mudstones with thin strata and lenses of packstones and wackestones rich in spicules of siliceous sponges"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by Costa

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. Dal Sasso and S. Maganuco. 2011. Scipionyx samniticus (Theropoda: Compsognathidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Italy: osteology, ontogenetic assessment, phylogeny, soft tissue anatomy, taphonomy and palaeobiology. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civio di Storia Naturales di Milano 37(1):1-281 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112631: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 14.07.2011, edited by Philip Mannion