Where: Italy (43.5° N, 12.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maiolica Formation, Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• From a total of 125 m thickness, 440 beds have been numbered down from the "Faraoni level" of the Upper Hauterivian (bed 69). The sampling stopped after finding the faunas of the Upper Valanginian beds. Beds 410-414: ?A. radiatus zone, lower Hauterivian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: focus on ammonites

Primary reference: P. Faraoni, A. Marini, and G. Pallini. 1995. The Hauterivian ammonite succession in the Central Apennines, Maiolica formation (Petrano Mt., Cagli). Preliminary results. Palaeopelagos 5:227-236 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65868: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 26.09.2006