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)
• Microbialite, Cassianothalamia zardinii, some ‘reef’ builders, hexactinellid and lithistid sponges, microencrusters
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; mudstone and 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 182585: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cyanophyceae | |
Baccanella floriformis Pantic 1971 | |
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Demospongiae | |
Aka cassianensis demosponge | |
Cassianothalamia zardinii Reitner 1987 demosponge | |
Hydrozoa | |
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956 | |
Anthozoa | |
Thecosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Ladinella porata | |
Ladinella porata Ott 1968 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Polychaeta | |