Borgo Valsugana (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.0° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.6° N, 24.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gastropod Oolite Member (Werfen Formation), Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• May be Smithian in upper part, as it interfingers with Siusi Mb

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, dolomitic, gray, red packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collected in 2004

Primary reference: A. Nützel and C. Schulbert. 2005. Facies of two important Early Triassic gastropod lagerstatten: implications for diversity patterns in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Facies 51:480-500 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116029: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
Altadema hausmannae Nützel and Karapunar 2023 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Coelostylinidae
Coelostylina ? werfensis Wittenburg 1908 snail
 Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae