Where: Italy (46.5° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 20.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Trachyceras aon ammonoid zone, Cassian Formation, Julian (235.0 - 232.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); poorly lithified, brown, gray marl
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Reposited in the BSP
Collection methods: bulk, peroxide, sieve
• The original weight of sample B–bulk was not noted and the mesh size used is
•also unknown, but it was finer than 0.5 mm because foraminiferans are much more abundant in this sample than in sample A–bulk.
•Repository: Naturmuseum Sudtirol, Bolzano (NMS BOZ). Additional material is housed in the Bayerische Staatssammlung fur Palaontologie und Geologie in Munchen under the inventory number SNSB BSPG 2012 XIV.
Primary reference: A. Nützel and A. Kaim. 2014. Diversity, palaeoecology and systematics of a marine fossil assemblage from the Late Triassic Cassian Formation at Settsass Scharte, N Italy. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 88:405-431 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 163816: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Nodosariata | |
Holothuroidea | |
Holothuria indet. Linnaeus 1767 sea cucumber | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Scaphopoda | |
Plagioglypta undulata Münster 1841 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Helenostylina convexa Nützel and Kaim 2014 snail
Coelostylina conica Münster 1841 snail | |
? Popenella sp. Bandel 1992 snail | |
Atorcula canalifera Münster 1841 snail | |
Schartia carinata Nützel and Kaim 2014 snail | |
Bandellina cassiana Bandel 1996 snail | |
Domerionina pralongiana Bandel 1994 snail | |
Woehrmannia lineata Klipstein 1843 snail | |
Pseudoclanculus nodosus Münster 1841 snail | |
Goniospira armata Münster 1841 snail | |
Spirostylus brevior Kittl 1894 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeonucula strigilata Goldfuss 1837 nut clam | |
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 |