Passo di Monte Croce Comelico, transitional beds, Dolomites (Permian of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.7° N, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 4.5° N, 25.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

• Bioclastic (algae and foraminifers) grainstone and packestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Posenato. 2001. The Athyridoids of the transitional beds between Bellerophon and Werfen Formations (uppermost Permian, southern Alps, Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 107(2):197-226 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116439: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Janiceps peracuta Stache 1878
Janiceps bipartita Stache 1878
Janiceps papilio Stache 1878
Janiceps cadorica Stache 1878
Comelicania merlai Posenato 1998