Earth:Pietraroja Formation

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Pietraroja Formation
Stratigraphic range: Albian
TypeGeological formation
Lithology
PrimaryLimestone
Location
RegionCampania
Country Italy
Type section
Named forPietraroja

The Pietraroja Formation, also referred to as the Pietraroia Plattenkalk is a Cretaceous geologic formation located in the Italian municipality of Pietraroja,[1] near Benevento, in Campania region. It is of Albian age. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]

Paleofauna

See also

  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

Footnotes

  1. (in Italian) Ciro, the Italian dinosaur from Pietraroja
  2. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

References

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN:0-520-24209-2.