Monte Pra della Vacca/Kühwiesenkopf, bed PV 83-85: Pelsonian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Sturiidae
Sturia sansovinii (Mojsisovics 1869)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Acrochordiceratidae
Acrochordiceras ex gr. carolinae von Mojsisovics 1882
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Pseudoplacunopsis fissistriata (Winckler 1861)
recombined as Placunopsis fissistriata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Mysidioptera cainalloi
Plagiostoma striatum (Schlotheim 1820)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Neomorphotis compta Goldfuss 1833
    = Eumorphotis beneckei Bittner 1901
Hofmann and Hautmann 2013
synonym of Neomorphotis comta
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium discites (Schlotheim 1820)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya brevis
original and current combination Myacites (Pleuromya)
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
? Neoschizodus sp. Giebel 1855
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Trentino-Alto Adige
Coordinates: 46.7° North, 12.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.2° North, 23.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Pelsonian
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Braies/Prags Formation:Dont
Local section:Monte Pra della Vacca Local bed:84
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: fossil lagerstätte, "plant bed"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Lithology description: siltstone, marly siltstone and carbonatic siltstone
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Geology comments: transported assemblage which accumulated in a basinal environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:81493
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, M. Clapham Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Clapham
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-06-27 06:40:41 Last modified:2008-06-27 09:55:56
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27456. R. Posenato. 2008. Anisian (Middle Triassic) bivalves from the Dolomites (Italy). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 247(1):93-115 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

51100 R. Hofmann and M. Hautmann. 2013. Taxonomic names, in Recovery of benthic marine communities from the end-Permian mass extinction at the low latitudes of eastern Panthalassa. Palaeontology 57 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]