Tesero Te-14 (Permian of Italy)

Also known as Tesero T7B

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

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• 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 classes: macrofossils, microfossils

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 84169: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sophie Jankowski on 19.09.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Comelicania sp. Frech 1901
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Foraminifera
 Lagenina - Robuloididae
 Lagenina - Syzraniidae
 Lagenina -
 Lagenina - Frondinidae
 Lagenina - Protonodosariidae
 Fusulinina - Geinitzinidae