Where: Lombardy, Italy (45.8° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° N, 22.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Reitzi ammonoid zone, Buchenstein Formation, Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Reitzi Zone (Avisianum Subzone). "Transitional Beds."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); concretionary, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Brack and H. Rieber. 1993. Towards a better definition of the Anisian/Ladinian boundary: new biostratigraphic data and correlations of boundary sections from the Southern Alps. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 86(2):415-527 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44546: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.09.2004, edited by Sabine Nürnberg

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