Where: Italy (40.0° N, 18.1° E: paleocoordinates 26.0° N, 17.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Melissano Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 65.5 Ma)

• < 1 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Cestari and G. Sirna. 1987. Rudist fauna in the Maastrichtian deposits of southern Salento (southern Italy). Memorie della Societa Geologica Italiana 40:133-147 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67089: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.11.2006