Western Buffaure, above Mazzin (Triassic of Italy)

Also known as East side of Val di Fassa

Where: South Tyrol, Italy (46.5° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° 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 205085: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia mytiloides Schlotheim 1820 oyster