Dendronella–Hexactinellida Association (D-H; Misurina) (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

• non-fluorescent, poorly sorted mudstone-wackestone, often with peloid aggregates, sparse bioclasts that mainly comprise bivalve and thalamid sponge fragments, and rarely, uniserial foraminifers
• mudstone-wackestone, cements

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 182571: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Polychaeta
 Terebellomorpha -
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Ladinella porata
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Shamovella
  -
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
Plexoramea cerebriformis
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Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
Uvanella irregularis Ott 1967 demosponge
 Haplosclerida -
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