West side of Val Gardena (Permian of Italy)

Also known as Above Plan de Gralba, Grödner Joch

Where: South Tyrol, Italy (46.5° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 4.6° N, 25.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pektinidenkalk Member (Bellerophon Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: black limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. M. Ogilvie Gordon. 1927. Das Grödener-, Fassa- und Enneberggebiet in den Südtiroler Dolomiten: Geologische Beschreibung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Überschiebungserscheinungen. Teil III. Paläontologie. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 24(2):1-88 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204985: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 02.10.2019, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica comelicana Stache 1877 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
"Pecten trinkeri" = Gardenapecten trinkeri
"Pecten trinkeri" = Gardenapecten trinkeri Stache 1878 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia hautmanni Prinoth and Posenato 2023 clam