Borta landslide, near Caprizzi: Alaunian, Italy
| Country: | Italy |
| Coordinates: |
46.4° North, 12.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.2° North, 29.9° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
| Period: | Triassic |
Epoch: | Late Triassic |
| Stage: | Norian |
10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Alaunian |
| Age range of interval: | 215.38 - 211.18 m.y. ago |
| Formation: | Dolomia di Forni |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
| Stratigraphy comments: Dolomia di Forni is late Alaunian-early Sevatian, but most of the exceptional fossils (such as decapods) come from the lower member. |
| Primary lithology: | black lithified carbonaceous dolomite |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: It represents deposition in an anoxic marine basin whose maximum depth was about 400 m, and was surrounded by the shallow water carbonate platform of the Dolomia Principale Formation |
| Modes of preservation: | adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (float) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: MFSN (Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, Udine, Friuli, Italy) |
| Also known as: | Frana di Borta |
| Database number: | 155688 |
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham |
Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham |
Research group: | decapod,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-04-23 15:40:42 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2014-04-23 15:40:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 41441. | decapod | A. Garassino, G. Teruzzi, and F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1996. The macruran decapod crustaceans of the Dolomia di Forni (Norian, Upper Triassic) of Carnia (Udine, NE Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 136(1):15-60 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham] |
| 81820 | | A. Garassino. 2000. Glyphea rigoi n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda) della Dolomia di Forni (Norico, Triassico superiore) della Carnia (Udine, NE Italia). Gortania 22:59-64 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |