Where: Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (46.7° N, 12.1° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dont Formation (Braies/Prags Group), Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• fossil lagerstätte, "plant bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Posenato. 2008. Anisian (Middle Triassic) bivalves from the Dolomites (Italy). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 247(1):93-115 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81493: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.06.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

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