Cassianothalamia Association I (C-G I; Seelandalpe) (Triassic to of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.6° N, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 20.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cassian Formation, Ladinian to Ladinian (242.0 - 228.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; mudstone and wackestone

• A less depth-gradient owed variation of the

•‘‘Cassianothalamia Association’’ II,

•oxygen rich environment

• Mudstone and mudstone-wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Sanchez-Beristain and J. Reitner. 2016. Palaeoecology of new fossil associations from the Cipit boulders, St. Cassian Formation (Ladinian–Carnian, Middle–Upper Triassic; Dolomites, NE Italy). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 90(2):243-269 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182570: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Terebellomorpha -
Disjectoporidae
  - Disjectoporidae
Disjectoporidae indet. Tornquist 1901
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Sestrostomellidae
Sestrostomella robusta Zittel 1878 demosponge
 Agelasida - Preperonidellidae
Precorynella sp. Dieci et al. 1968 demosponge
  -
 Hadromerida - Polysiphonidae
Zardinia sp. Dieci et al. 1968 demosponge
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
Cassianothalamia zardinii Reitner 1987 demosponge
 Clavulina - Adociidae
Aka sp. De Laubenfels 1936 demosponge
Shamovella
  -
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Wetheredellidae
  - Wetheredellidae
Koskinobullina ? socialis Cherchi and Schroeder 1979