Mt. Camicia area, Vradda section, Bituminous Dolostones (Triassic of Italy)

Where: L'Aquila, Italy (42.4° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 20.8° N, 14.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous carbonate and lithified, massive dolomite

• black and white rhythmites in very thin laminas of carbonate and organic matter, irregular alternation with massive bituminous dolostones with synsedimentary microfaults, convolute laminations, slumping and various kinds of synsedimentary angular bituminous breccias, related to compaction, fluids escape and gravity movements

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Bertinelli, C. Nannarone, L. Passeri and F. Venturi. 2003. Hettangian Ammonites and Radiolarians in the Mt. Camica (Gran Sasso, Central Apennines). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 110(1):87-95 [A. Kocsis/N. Stilkerich/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196764: authorized by Adam Kocsis, entered by Nina Stilkerich on 04.10.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospirella sp. Plummer 1945
Duplicisporites
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Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
"Corollina classoides" = Classopollis, "Corollina meyeriana" = Classopollis, "Corollina sp." = Classopollis
"Corollina classoides" = Classopollis
Pflug
"Corollina meyeriana" = Classopollis
Klaus
"Corollina sp." = Classopollis Pflug 1953
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
thin shelled