Rota, Valle Imagna (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.8° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 27.3° N, 13.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dolomia Principale Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• Interbedded with lower strata of the Dolomia Principale (with Gervilleia exilis and Worthenia songavatii)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, black limestone

• Black limestone, compact, laminated ("straterellati"), with shaly intercalations

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Perlini Renato

• Repository: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (likely destroyed in Second World War)

Primary reference: G. de Alessandri. 1920. Sopra alcuni avanzi di pesci Triasici della Lombardia. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali 59:85-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153112: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 07.12.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Callipurbeckiidae
"Colobodus ornatus" = Paralepidotus ornatus
"Colobodus ornatus" = Paralepidotus ornatus Agassiz 1832