Punta del Lavatoio, Alghero (Triassic of Spain)

Also known as Punta dei Lavatori

Where: Sardinia, Spain (40.5° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 17.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Muschelkalk Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• "?latest Fassanian - early Longobardian" (Posenato 2002)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; claystone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Posenato. 2002. Bivalves and other macrobenthic fauna from the Ladinian "Muschelkalk" of Punta del Lavatoio (Alghero, SW Sardinia). Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana 1:185-196 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201607: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 15.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
? Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Mysidiellidae
"Septifer eduliformis" = Promysidiella eduliformis
"Septifer eduliformis" = Promysidiella eduliformis Schlotheim 1820 clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis plana Giebel 1856 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma cf. striatum Schlotheim 1820 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pleuronectites laevigatus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Hoernesia socialis Schlotheim 1823 oyster
Bakevellia subcostata Goldfuss 1838 oyster
 Pterioida - Prospondylidea
"Enantiostreon difforme" = Terquemia difformis
"Enantiostreon difforme" = Terquemia difformis Schlotheim 1820 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Costatoria goldfussi Alberti 1830 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Coenothyris vulgaris Schlotheim 1820
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
"Budurovignathus truempyi" = Sephardiella truempyi
"Budurovignathus truempyi" = Sephardiella truempyi Hirsch 1971 conodont