Where: South Tyrol, Italy (46.6° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 7.2° N, 22.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Buchenstein Formation, Illyrian to Illyrian (247.2 - 235.0 Ma)

• Buchenstein Formation is Late Anisian (Illyrian) - Early Ladinian (Fassanian) in age (Wotzlaw et al. 2017)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 205105: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.10.2019

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