Caffaro riverbed section, Bagolino, 76.4 m: Fassanian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Protrachyceras cf. longobardicum (Mojsisovics 1882)
Arpadites arpadis (Mojsisovics 1870)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Proarcestes sp. Mojsisovic 1893
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Lombardy
Coordinates: 45.8° North, 10.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.1° North, 20.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Middle Triassic
Stage: Ladinian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 2
Key time interval: Fassanian
Age range of interval: 242 - 239.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Buchenstein
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Curianii Zone (or possibly younger).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:dolomitic "limestone"
Lithology description: Evenly bedded carbonates, partly dolomitized and presumably of turbiditic origin.
Environment:basinal (carbonate)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:44572
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-09-15 13:47:18 Last modified:2017-11-26 23:02:23
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-15 13:47:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11675. P. Brack and H. Rieber. 1993. Towards a better definition of the Anisian/Ladinian boundary: new biostratigraphic data and correlations of boundary sections from the Southern Alps. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 86(2):415-527 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]