Where: Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (46.4° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Dolomia di Forni Formation), Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• Outcrop F1 in the middle part of the lower member of the Dolomia di Forni Formation; lowermost part of Alaunian 3 (middle Norian)

•Dolmomia di Forni "spans the Alaunian 2 - Sevatian 1 interval"; middle-late Norian (Dalla Vecchia 2006)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); brown, gray dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ruggero Tonello in 1980s, 1994

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• Collected from a scree slope

Primary reference: F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1991. Note sulla stratigrafia, sedimentologia e paleontologia della Dolomia di Forni (Triassico Superiore) nella Valle del Rio Seazza (Preone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia) [Note on the stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology of the Dolomia di Forni (Upper Triassic) of the Rio Seazza Valley (Preone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia)]. Gortania - Atti del Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale 12(90):7-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83370: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.08.2008, edited by Matthew Carrano

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