PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE UPPER CRETACEOUS CORAL-RUDIST FACIES OF OSTUNI (SOUTH-EASTERN MURGE, APULIA)

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  • ANGELA LAVIANO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/13330

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Rudists; stratigraphy; palaeoecology; Upper Cretaceous; southern Italy.

Abstract

The Upper Cretaceous carbonate platform deposits of Ostuni have been studied from a stratigraphical, palaeontological and palaeoecological point of view.

 ln the sequence studied two parts can be distinguished: the Iower one consists of stratified biomicritic limestones with clusters of rudists, other pelecypods and microfauna, represented by ostracods algae and benthonic foraminifers; the upper one consists of a sequence of coral—rudist buildups with banks of calcarenites and calcirudites characterized by trace fossil assemblages, gastropods, rudists, other pelecypods and benthonic and planktonic foraminifers.

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2020-04-17

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«PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE UPPER CRETACEOUS CORAL-RUDIST FACIES OF OSTUNI (SOUTH-EASTERN MURGE, APULIA)» (2020) Rivista italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 90(2). doi:10.54103/2039-4942/13330.