Special Publication #87

Cretaceous Rudists and Carbonate Platforms: Environmental Feedback
Editor: Robert W. Scott

Table of Contents

Dedication: Dr. Keith Young and Dr. James Lee Wilson

Introduction Robert W. Scott

Theme I: Depositional Environments of Cretaceous Carbonates

Cenomanian carbonate depositional settings: case histories from the central-southern Anennines (Italy)
Gabriele Carannante, Daniela Ruberti, Lucia Simone and Marco Vigliotti

Radiolitids, sediment accumulation rates and hydrodynamic regimes in Cretaceous carbonate platforms, Italy
Riccardo Cestari and Jose Maria Pons

Depositonal environments of Upper Cenomanian limestones with rudists and dinosaur footprints, Instria, Croatia
Alan Moro, Giorgo Tunis, Aleksander Mezga, Alceo Tarlao and Vlasta Cosovi

Upper Cretaceous tempestites in rudist-rich facies, Tunisia
Mohamed Hédi Negra and Mohamed Faouzi Zagrarni

Sedimentary processes and biofacies of Late Cretaceous low-energy carbonate ramp systems (Southern Italy)
Daniela Ruberti, Gabriele Carannante, Lucia Simone, Giuseppe Sirna and Maurizio Sirna

Upper Cretaceous rudist bivalves from Basinal Highs (Venetian Prealps, Northern Italy)
Enrico Trevisani and Riccardo Cestari

Paleoecology of the Maastrichtian rudist Biradiolites in Jamaica
Simon F. Mitchell, Gavin C. Gunter and Ryan Ramsook

Theme II: Origins, Events and Demise of Rudist Paleocommunities

Inside rudist ecosystems: growth, reproduction, and population dynamics
Stefan Götz

Sclerochronology and diagenesis of Late Cretaceous radiolitids (Bivalvia, Hippuritoidea), Spain
Iván Regidor Higuera, Francisco García Garmilla and Peter W. Skelton

Intra-association development and paleobiology of Upper Cretaceous rudist Biradiolites angulosus
Tvrtko Korbar

Latest Maastrichtian species-rich rudist associations of the Apulian Margin of Salento (S Italy) and the Ionian Islands (Greece)
Thomas Steuber, Mariano Parente, Mischa Hagmaier, Adrian Immenhauser, Bram van der Kooij and Gianluca Frijia

Strontium isotope stratigraphy of Early Cretaceous rudist bivalves
Jean-Pierre Masse and Thomas Steuber

Barremian-Albian rudist zones, U.S. Gulf Coast
Robert W. Scott and Harry F. Filkorn

Lower Albian sequence stratigraphy and coral buildups: Glen Rose Formation, Texas, U.S.A.
Robert W. Scott, Ann Molineux, Hannes Löser and Ernest A. Mancini

Stratigraphy of middle part of Glen Rose Formation (Lower Albian), Canyon Lake Gorge, Central Texas, U.S.A.
W. C. Ward and W. B. Ward

Theme III: Towards Rudist Taxonomy, Biogeography and Phylogeny

Late Cretaceous Hippuritids of Algeria: a critical review of bibliographic data
Fettouma Chikhi-Aouimeur

Revision of Albian Polyconitid and Monopleurid rudist bivalves from the New World
Jean-Pierre Masse, Julien Beltramo, Jose Martinez-Reyes and Annie Arnaud-Vanneau

Non-Vertebrate paleontology at the Texas Natural Science Center / Texas Memorial Museum: rudist collections as a resource for research
Ann Molineux and Nina Triche

Barremian-Early Aptian rudists, Sligo Formation, Texas, U.S.A.
Robert W. Scott and Russell E. Hinote

Key bivalves of the Lower Albian Glen Rose Formation, Texas, U.S.A.
Robert W. Scott