Sasso Rosso (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.3° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 21.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• violet, light gray and rose crinoid limestones with lenses of brachiopod lumachella separated by gray crinoidal limestones. The brachiopod lenses also contain crinoids, lamellibranchs, echinoids and ammonites

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: coquina

Collected by A. Ferrari, C. Manara

• Repository: M. Capellini Geological Museum of the University of Bologna (Ferrari and Manara collections)

Primary reference: A. Ferrari and C. Manara. 1972. Brachiopodi Del Dogger Inferiore Di Monte Peller - Trentino. Giornale Di Geologia 38(1):253-333 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161174: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 02.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Antiptychina supinifrons Rothpletz 1886
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Loboidothyris lossii Lepsius 1878
1 specimen and 1 dis-articulated valve
 Terebratulida - Dictyothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
"Orbirhynchia wahneri" = Parvirhynchia wahneri
"Orbirhynchia wahneri" = Parvirhynchia wahneri Di Stefano 1884
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
"Lacunosella vigilii" = Stolmorhynchia vigilii
"Lacunosella vigilii" = Stolmorhynchia vigilii Lepsius 1878
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Rhynchonella" nauniae Finkelstein 1889