Punta Bianca (Gulf of La Spezia), Bed 3 (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Liguria, Italy (44.0° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 9.6° N, 21.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• 15 m thick. Lower part is unfossiliferous.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and marl

• Limestone and marly-calcareous shale.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P.R. Federici. 1966. Gasteropodi Ladinici nei calcari di Punta Bianca (Golfa di La Spezia). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologie e Stratigrafia 72(4):999-1022 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44712: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.09.2004

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Coelostylinidae
"Trypanostylus (Trypanostylus) triadicus" = Turristylus triadicus Kittl 1894 snail
Coelochrysalis ammoni Böhm 1895 snail
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
Diplopora sp. Schafhaeutl 1863
Dasycladacean alga