Val Parina, S954 (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Bergamo, Italy (45.9° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 6.6° N, 22.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nevadites ammonoid zone, Esino Formation, Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• Collected from bioclastic lenses 10-100cm thick, at the transition between lithozones 3 and 4 which partially interfinger in the lower-middle part of the Esimo Limestone, from 200-350m above the base to 500m below the of the formation. Lithozone 3 consists of bindstones, bafflestones and bio-intraclastic packstones and wackestones, whereas lithozone 4 consists of peloidal and bio-intraclastic packstones, wackestones, mudstones, and rarely grainstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection donated to the Museo Civico de Scienze Naturali "E. Caffi" of Bergamo

Primary reference: V. Torti and L. Angiolini. 1997. Middle Triassic Brachiopods from Val Palina, Bergamasc Alps, Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 103(2):149-172 [D. Bottjer/N. Bonuso/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33394: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 28.07.2003, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Noritidae
"Norites dieneri" = Norites gondola
"Norites dieneri" = Norites gondola Mojsisovics 1869 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Parakellnerites sp. Rieber 1973 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Aplococeratidae
Aplococeras orobicum Fantini Sestini 1994 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
Epigymnites sp. Diener 1916 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Megaphyllitidae
Megaphyllites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Diplospirellidae