Forchair Creek undescribed pterosaur, MFSN 26823 (Triassic to of Italy)

Where: Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (46.4° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.5° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dolomia di Forni Formation, Alaunian to Alaunian (215.6 - 205.6 Ma)

• Unknown stratigraphic position within the Dolomia di Forni

•Dolmomia di Forni "spans the Alaunian 2 - Sevatian 1 interval"; middle-late Norian (Dalla Vecchia 2006)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); dolomite

• "The Dolomia di Forni is composed mainly of dark, often cherty, well-bedded dolostone that is frequently thinly laminated and sometimes slumped. Thicker laminae are graded and represent distal turbidites...the basinal facies preserving the tetrapod remains are composed mainly of distal turbidites and carbonate mud deposited by fallout"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2003. A review of the Triassic pterosaur record. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "E. Caffi" Bergamo 22:13-29 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83421: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 20.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Campylognathoididae
Eudimorphodon sp.
Eudimorphodon sp. Zambelli 1973 pterosaur
MFSN 26823, three articulated wing phalanges, undescribed