Gran Roa, north of Gardena Pass (Upper Werfen) (Triassic of Italy)

Also known as Sëurasas, Grödner Tal

Where: South Tyrol, Italy (46.6° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.4° N, 24.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campil Member (Werfen Formation), Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• "[lower Campiler beds]" (Ogilvie Gordon 1927)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. M. Ogilvie Gordon. 1927. Das Grödener-, Fassa- und Enneberggebiet in den Südtiroler Dolomiten: Geologische Beschreibung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Überschiebungserscheinungen. Teil III. Paläontologie. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 24(2):1-88 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205014: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
"Pseudomonotis (Eumorphotis) inaequicostata" = Eumorphotis inaequicostata
"Pseudomonotis (Eumorphotis) inaequicostata" = Eumorphotis inaequicostata Benecke 1868 scallop