Recoaro, Gracilis beds (Triassic to of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.7° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 22.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aegean to Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Dadocrinus gracilis beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone and shale

• hypersaline conditions, cloudy water
• Dadocrinus Gracilis limestone, calcareous marl

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: H. Mostler. 1976. Die stratigrafische Stellung der Gibsvorkommen in der Trias von Recoaro (Vicentin, Italien), [The stratigraphic position of the occurrence at the Triassic]. Geol. Paläont. Mitt. Innsbruck 5/6:1-20 [W. Kiessling/M. Nimke]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87247: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 12.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
Agathammina sp. Neumayr 1887
 Miliolida -
"Glomospira sinensis" = Hoyenella sinensis
"Glomospira sinensis" = Hoyenella sinensis Ho 1959
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Nodosinellidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
"Gervillia ? costata" = Bakevellia costata, "Gervillia ? socialis" = Hoernesia socialis, Gervillia ? mytiloides
"Gervillia ? costata" = Bakevellia costata Schlotheim 1820 oyster
"Gervillia ? socialis" = Hoernesia socialis Schlotheim 1823 oyster
Gervillia ? mytiloides Schlotheim 1820 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Unionites ? fassaensis Wissmann 1841 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Myophoria vulgaris von Schlotheim 1820 clam
Neoschizodus cardissoides Ziethen 1830 clam