Western slopes of Seiser Alm (Triassic of Italy)

Also known as Alpe di Siusi

Where: South Tyrol, Italy (46.5° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 6.3° N, 23.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ceratites binodosus ammonoid zone, Muschelkalk Group, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Lower

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

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 205067: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
"Myophoria ovata" = Neoschizodus ovatus
"Myophoria ovata" = Neoschizodus ovatus Goldfuss 1838 clam