Where: Italy (40.5° N, 15.7° E: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 21.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mt. Facito Formation, Anisian to Anisian (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

• Below reef limestone.

•Age based on conodonts, ammonites and brachipods

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, black wackestone

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: S. G. Ciarapica, S. Cirilli, R. Martini, R. Rettori, L. Zaninetti and G. Salvini-Bonnard. 1990. Carbonate buildups and associated facies in the Monte Facito Formation (southern Apennines). Boll. Soc. Geol. Italiana 109:151-164 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20666: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 03.06.2002

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