Tesero, Tesero section, Bellerophon Formation, Bulla Member, Te-9 (Permian of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.3° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 4.5° N, 25.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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

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 84163: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sophie Jankowski on 19.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
"Nodosaria" elabugae
Foraminifera
 Lagenina - Robuloididae
Calvezina ottomana, Robuloides lens
Robuloides lens Reichel 1946
 Lagenina - Syzraniidae
Rectostipulina quadrata
 Lagenina - Frondinidae
Ichthyofrondina latilimbata
 Lagenina - Protonodosariidae
Frondina permica, Frondina cf. permica
 Fusulinina - Pachyphloiidae
Pachyphloia schwageri
 Fusulinina - Geinitzinidae
Nodosinelloides mirabilis, Geinitzina sp., Geinitzina cf. spandeli, Geinitzina spandeli
Geinitzina spandeli
dolomitica