Where: Italy (46.5° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.6° N, 25.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hindeodus changxingensis conodont zone, Tesero Oolite Member (Werfen Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Posenato. 2011. Latest Changhsingian orthotetid brachiopods in the Dolomites (southern Alps, Italy): ecological opportunists at the peak of the end-Permian mass extinction. Journal of Paleontology 85(1):58-68 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101909: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2011

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