Cima di Costabella (Muschelkalk Fm.) (Triassic of Italy)

Where: South Tyrol, Italy (46.4° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° 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 Muschelkalk Group

• 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 205097: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
"Terebratula vulgaris" = Waldheimia muensteri
"Terebratula vulgaris" = Waldheimia muensteri d'Orbigny 1849
 Terebratulida - Angustothyrididae
"Waldheimia cf. angustaeformis" = Angustothyris angustaeformis
"Waldheimia cf. angustaeformis" = Angustothyris angustaeformis Boekh 1872
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten discites Schlotheim 1820 scallop