Vette Feltrine, Italy (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Prealpi Bellunesi, Italy (46.1° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Calcari Grigi Formation, Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; cherty/siliceous limestone

• well-bedded pinkish bioclastic (mainly crinoidal) packstone/grainstone, chert is abundant as withish nodules.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: C. Broglio Loriga, D. Masetti, S. Forastieri and E. Trevisani. 1991. Communità a Poriferi nei Calcari Grigi delle Vette Feltrine (Giurassico Inferiore, Prealpi Bellunesi). Annali dell'Università di Ferrara / Sezione scienze della terra. (3/4)51-81 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38081: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 10.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Demospongiae
 Ceractinomorpha -
"Ceractinomorpha" indet. Levi 1953 demosponge
 Verticillitida - Verticillitidae
Stylothalamia sp. Ott 1967 demosponge
 Tetractinomorpha -
"Tetractinomorpha" indet. Lévi 1956 demosponge
Hexactinellida
  -
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Verneulinidae indet. Cushman 1911
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Foraminifera
  -
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Frondicularia sp. Defrance 1824
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804