Santonian

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Age: 
79 millions years

Russia, Karachay-Cherkess Republic. White limestones with interlayers of greenish-gray thin-layered marls. Upper Cretaceous. Santonian, Campanian. Fossil: Echinocorys turritusĀ  Lamb., Micraster rostratus Mant., Inoceramus azerbaydjanensis Aliev., In balticus Boehs, Hauericeras pseudogardeni Schlut.

Rock type: 
Age: 
90 millions years

Sardinia, Gola di Gorropu. Middle-Upper Cretaceous succession of Eastern Sardinia. Carbonatic shelf deposits: limestones and marls, cherty limestones, detritic glaucophane sandstones, of crica-infralittoral environment, with planktonic foraminifers, rudists and inoceramids. Upper Albian - Maastrichtian.