Where: Italy (46.4° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Dolomia di Forni is late Alaunian-early Sevatian, but most of the exceptional fossils (such as decapods) come from the lower member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: MFSN (Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, Udine, Friuli, Italy)

Primary reference: A. Garassino, G. Teruzzi, and F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1996. The macruran decapod crustaceans of the Dolomia di Forni (Norian, Upper Triassic) of Carnia (Udine, NE Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 136(1):15-60 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155687: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.04.2014

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