Ponte Serra, PS D (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.0° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 20.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Listato Member (Calcare Selcifero di Fonzaso Formation), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• sample PS D, lithozone C, UAZ95: 7-8 [An Early Oxfordian age can not be firmly excluded on the basis of radiolarians. But the Early Oxfordian age is not likely, because calcareous nannofossils of Callovian age are associated throughout the studied interval.]

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, cherty/siliceous wackestone

• thin to medium bedded red cherty limestones consisting of radiolarian wackestones

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: P. Beccaro, M. O. Diserens, S. Gorican and L. Martire. 2008. Callovian radiolarians from the lowermost Calcare Selcifero di Fonzaso at Ponte Serra (Trento Plateau, southern Alps, Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 114(3):489-504 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89644: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.06.2009

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Hsuidae
 Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
Williriedellum carpathicum Dumitrica 1970 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Poulpidae
Saitoum elegans De Wever 1981 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
 Spumellaria - Archaeospongoprunidae
Archaeospongoprunum imlayi Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Spongodiscidae