Bad Ratzes, west of Seiser Alm (Muschelkalk Fm.) (Triassic of Italy)

Also known as Punta di Razes, Razzes

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 205071: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
"Pecten albertii" = Leptochondria albertii
"Pecten albertii" = Leptochondria albertii Goldfuss 1838 scallop
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
"Myophoria costata" = Costatoria costata, "Myophoria orbicularis" = Neoschizodus orbicularis, "Myophoria laevigata" = Neoschizodus laevigatus, "Myophoria praeorbicularis" = Neoschizodus praeorbicularis
"Myophoria costata" = Costatoria costata Zenker 1833 clam
"Myophoria orbicularis" = Neoschizodus orbicularis Bronn 1837 clam
"Myophoria laevigata" = Neoschizodus laevigatus Ziethen 1830 clam
var. ovalis
"Myophoria praeorbicularis" = Neoschizodus praeorbicularis Bittner 1901 clam