ammonites
La Cavere, Pietraroja (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)

• "calcari selciferi ed ittiolitiferi di Pietraroia"; upper Plattenkalk

• group of beds-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, Tedesco

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Scipionyx discovered in 1981 by Giovanni Tedesco

Primary reference: F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1995. I dinosauri in Italia: stato delle conoscenze [Dinosaurs in Italy: state of knowledge]. Natura Nascosta 11:29-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68888: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 12.02.2007, edited by Roger Benson