Scudo Tremare, Northern Grigna Mountain (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.9° N, 9.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.7° N, 20.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Buchenstein Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone

• subject to low oxygen or anoxic events.
• The outcrop consists of a series of limestones, marly-limestones, and limestones with flint beds or lenses, in layers cm-dm thick, with centimetric intercalations of clay and levels containing geods (even of decimetric dimensions), for a total thickness of about two meters.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 2003-2009

• Repository: Museo di Paleontologia Universiti degli Studi di Milano (MPUM)

Primary reference: C. Lombardo, M. Rusconi, and A. Tintori. 2008. New Perleidiform from the Lower Ladinian (Middle Triassic) of the Northern Grigna (Northern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 114(2):263-272 [M. Clapham/T. Wolfe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119868: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Trisha Wolfe on 03.11.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Asteroidea
 Trichasteropsida - Trichasteropsiidae
? Trichasteropsis sp.1
? Trichasteropsis sp.1 Eck 1879 sea star
Bed 28
Osteichthyes
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Saurichthys grignae n. sp.2
Saurichthys grignae n. sp.2 Tintori 2013 ray-finned fish
MPUM 9546, 11210, 11209
Actinopteri
 Perleidiformes - Polzbergiidae
Stoppania gaetanii
Stoppania gaetanii Lombardo et al. 2008
MPUM 9542
1Blake et al. 2017; 2Tintori 2013