Rue-Blanc, St. Cassian (Triassic of Italy)

Where: South Tyrol, Italy (46.6° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Described as being "Hauptdolomit", considered Lacian (Frech 1912)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Frech. 1912. Neue Zweischaler und Brachiopoden aus der Bakonyer Trias [New bivalves and brachiopods from the Bakony Trias]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(2):1-138 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203305: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 09.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Megalodontida - Dicerocardiidae
Dicerocardium himalayense Stoliczka 1869 clam
 Megalodontida - Megalodontidae
Megalodus hoernesi Frech 1912 clam
nov. var. elongata
Megalodus complanatus Guembel 1900 clam