Misurina landslide (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.6° N, 12.3° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 19.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cassian Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Its age is the same as that of the nearby locality ‘Misurina Skilift’: Carnian age at the Julian to Tuvalian transition.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified marl

• Essentially autochthonous basin assemblage, as is obvious from the low diversity and the lack or scarcity of shallow water material

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: chemical, peroxide

• Repository: Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige (Museum of Nature South Tyrol) Bolzano, Italy (PZO).

Primary reference: M. Reich, T. R. Stegemann, I. M. Hausmann, V. J. Roden, and A. Nützel. 2018. The youngest ophiocistoid: a first Palaeozoic-type echinoderm group representative from the Mesozoic. Palaeontology 61:803-811 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197055: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Prostyliferidae
Prostylifer paludinaris
Prostylifer paludinaris Münster 1841 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Coelostylinidae
Coelostylina conica
Coelostylina conica Münster 1841 snail
 Heterostropha - Gordenellidae
Promathildia elongata
Echinoidea
  - Proterocidaridae
? Pronechinus sp.
? Pronechinus sp. Kier 1965 sea urchin
Ophiocistioidea
  - Linguaserridae
Linguaserra triassica n. sp.
Linguaserra triassica n. sp. Reich 2018