Balest, Horizon A, Ortisei (Permian of Italy)

Where: Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (46.6° N, 11.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 25.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bellerophon Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• horizon A, 10-15 m below the "Val Gardena sandstone tongue"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite and lithified, dolomitic limestone

• grey marly arenaceous dolomites and dark grey dolomitized limestones, 1 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Posenato and H. Prinoth. 2004. Orizzonti a nautiloidi e a brachiopodi della formazione a Bellerophon (Permiano Superiore) in Val Gardena (Dolomiti) [Nautiloidea and brachiopoda horizons in the Upper Permian Bellerophon Formation in the Gardena Valley (Dolomites)]. Geo.Alp 1:71-86 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81526: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
? Germanonautilus sp., Tirolonautilus crux
? Germanonautilus sp. von Mojsisovics 1902
Tirolonautilus crux Stache 1877
 Nautilida - Liroceratidae
Liroceras sp.
Liroceras sp. Teichert 1940