Tamarin near Cortina d'Ampezzo (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.6° N, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 20.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cassian Formation, Julian (235.0 - 232.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• shallow subtidal depositional area, but material reworked from reef settings
• reef debris

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the NHMW

• NHMW 1990 collection

Primary reference: K. Bandel. 1991. Schlitzbandschnecken mit perlmutteriger Schale aus den triassischen St. Cassian Schichten der Dolomiten [Gastropods from the Triassic St. Cassian Formation of the Dolomites]. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, A 92:1-53 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69263: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.02.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Schizogonioidea - Schizogoniidae
Schizogonium tamarinum n. sp. Bandel 1991 snail