Sample SW0 - Prati di Stuores/Stuores Wiesen Section, Dolomites (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.5° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° N, 22.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Valle Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Sample SW0: -12.00 m from the stake 1. Regoledanus subzone, uppermost Ladinian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray marl

• The La Valle Fm. consists mainly of dark and gray marls with intercalations of volcanoturbidites.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Broglio Loriga, S. Cirilli, V. Zanche, D. Bari, P. Gianolla, G. F. Laghi, W. Lowrie, S. Manfrin, A. Mastandrea, P. Mietto, G. Muttoni, C. Neri, R. Posenato, M. Rechichi, R. Rettori and G. Roghi. 1999. The Prati di Stuores/Stuores Wiesen Section (Dolomites, Italy): a candidate Global Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Carnian stage. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 105(1):37-78 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50820: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 23.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Ammonoids only.
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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Lobitidae
Lobites ellipticus
Lobites ellipticus Hauer 1860 ceratite