West slope of Seceda (Upper Muschelkalk) (Triassic of Italy)

Where: South Tyrol, Italy (46.6° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.3° N, 23.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Upper

• 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 205098: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Daonella sturi Benecke 1868 oyster