Bulla section BU3, Bulla Member, Ortisei (Permian of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.6° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 25.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified wackestone

• parallel-bedded dolomicrites
• dark fossiliferous packstone, bioturbated wackestone and thin-bedded, clayey siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: chemical, acetic,

Primary reference: J. R. Groves, R. Rettori, J. L. Payne, M. D. Boyce, and D. Altiner. 2007. End-permian mass extinction of lagenide foraminifers in the southern alps (Northern Italy). Journal of Paleontology 81(3):415-434 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84130: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.09.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Knoxitidae
Knoxiella ventrospinosa Crasquin 2008 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Serenididae
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Sulcella suprapermiana Kozur 1985 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
"Bairdiacratia tergilata n. sp." = Kempfina tergilata Crasquin 2008 ostracod
"Bairdiacratia qinglaii" = Kempfina qinglaii Crasquin 2008 ostracod
Bairdiacypris "sp. 1" Bradfield 1935 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 1" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 2" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 7" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia cf. subcontracta Chen 1987 ostracod
Bairdia cheni Crasquin 2008 ostracod
Paramacrocypris schallreuteri Kozur 1985 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
? Parabythocythere chongpani n. sp. Crasquin 2008 ostracod
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Pachyphloiidae
 Fusulinina - Geinitzinidae
 Lagenina - Frondinidae
 Lagenina - Syzraniidae
 Lagenina - Robuloididae
 Lagenina - Protonodosariidae
 Lagenina -
? Pseudolangella sp. Sellier de Civrieux and Dessauvagie 1965