Where: Italy (46.6° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 25.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tesero Oolite Member (Werfen Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal packstone and lithified grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: chemical, acetic,

Primary reference: R. Posenato. 2009. Survival patterns of macrobenthic marine assemblages during the end-Permian mass extinction in the western Tethys (Dolomites, Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 280:150-167 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101925: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2011

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