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: surface (in situ)

• 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 163818: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.11.2014

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