Stuores, Italy (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.5° N, 12.1° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 19.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cassian Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Primary reference: W. Volz. 1896. Die Korallen der Schichten von St Cassian in Süd-Tirol. Palaeontographica 43:1-124 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38160: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 16.04.2004, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Protoheterastraeidae
"Thecosmilia sublaevis" = Remismilia sublaevis, "Hexastraea leonhardi n. sp." = Protoheterastrea leonhardi, Pontebbastraea pontebbanae n. gen.3
"Thecosmilia sublaevis" = Remismilia sublaevis Münster 1841 stony coral
"Hexastraea leonhardi n. sp." = Protoheterastrea leonhardi Volz 1896 stony coral
Pontebbastraea pontebbanae n. gen.3 Volz 1896 stony coral
St. cf. pontebbanae n.sp.
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Toechastraea ogilviae n. sp. stony coral
Craspedophyllia cristata n. sp. Volz 1896 stony coral
Retiophyllia granulata stony coral
Thecosmilia granulata
 Scleractinia - Margarophylliidae
Margarophyllia richthofeni n. sp. stony coral
Margarophyllia michaelis n. sp. stony coral
Margarophyllia crenata Münster 1841 stony coral
Margarophyllia capitata Münster 1841 stony coral
""Isastrea" haueri" = Distichomeandra haueri2 Laube 1865 stony coral
Margarosmilia hintzei n. sp. stony coral
Margarosmilia confluens Münster 1841 stony coral
Margarosmilia zieteni Klipstein 1843 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia cipitensis n. sp. stony coral
Montlivaltia radiciformis Münster 1841 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Tropiastraeidae
"Thamnastraea frechi" = Thamnasteriamorpha frechi, "Isastraea guembeli" = Guembelastraea guembeli
"Thamnastraea frechi" = Thamnasteriamorpha frechi Volz 1896 stony coral
"Isastraea guembeli" = Guembelastraea guembeli Laube 1865 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae
 Scleractinia - Conophyllidae
Omphalophyllia laubei n. sp. stony coral
Omphalophyllia boletiformis Münster 1841 stony coral
"Myriophyllia badiotica" = Myriophyllum badioticum Volz 1896 stony coral
Myriophyllum muensteri n. sp. Volz 1896 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Volzeiidae
"Retiophyllia subdichotoma" = Volzeia subdichotoma
"Retiophyllia subdichotoma" = Volzeia subdichotoma Münster 1841 stony coral
Thecosmilia subdichotoma
Hydrozoa
 Lemniscaterina - Cassianastraeidae
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Cassianebalidae
Cassianebala speciensis n. sp.1 Bandel 1996 snail