Civetta buildup, Dolomites (Triassic of Italy)

Also known as Reef 2631

Where: Italy (46.4° N, 12.1° E: paleocoordinates 7.1° N, 22.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sciliar Dolomite Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Sciliar Dolomite and Cassian Dolomite. The Civetta buildup is now confirmed to be Ladinian in age (Flügel 2002, SEPM 72)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• observations from non-dolomitized slope: bindstone, bafflestone, packstone, wackestone, rudstone and floatstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Fois and M. Gaetani. 1981. The northern margin of the Civetta buildup. Evolution during the Ladinian and the Carnian. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e stratigrafia 86(3):469-542 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73877: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.07.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Endostomatidae
"Corynella sp." = Endostoma
"Corynella sp." = Endostoma Roemer 1864 calcareous sponge
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
Stellispongia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 calcareous sponge
Peronidella cf. subcaespitosa Münster 1841 calcareous sponge
Demospongiae
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Colospongia sp. Laube 1865 demosponge
 Agelasida - Virgolidae
 Agelasida - Catenispongiidae
Hartmanina sp. Dieci et al. 1974 demosponge
 Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
"Dictyocoelia manon" = Solenolmia manon
"Dictyocoelia manon" = Solenolmia manon Münster 1841 demosponge
subsp. manon
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
Uvanella irregularis Ott 1967 demosponge
Ladinella porata
  -
Shamovella
  -
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Cladogirvanella cipitensis
  -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Duostominidae
 Vaginulinida - Lagenidae
Lagenidae indet. Reuss 1862
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae