Also known as Reef 3927

Where: Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (46.7° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 22.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sciliar Dolomite Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• The platform Sciliar Dolomite Formation interfingers with slope/basin Buchenstein Formation and Wengen Group.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified reef rocks

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: E. Fois. 1981. The Sass da Putia carbonate buildup (western Dolomites): biofacies succession and marginal development during the Ladinian. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 87(4):565-598 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 87098: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.03.2009

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