Sass da Putia buildup: Ladinian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Nodosariata - Robertinida - Duostominidae
Cyanophyceae - Garwoodiaceae
unclassified
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Margarophylliidae
Hydrozoa - Nigriporellidae
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Trentino-Alto Adige County:Bolzano
Coordinates: 46.7° North, 11.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.6° North, 35.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Middle Triassic
Stage: Ladinian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 2
Key time interval: Ladinian
Age range of interval: 241.464 - 237 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sciliar Dolomite
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The platform Sciliar Dolomite Formation interfingers with slope/basin Buchenstein Formation and Wengen Group.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "reef rocks"
Lithology description: megabreccia horizons with Tubiphytes/Bacinella wackestones/packstones, Porostromata bindstones, solenoporacean bafflestones/framestones, sphinctozoan bafflestones/bindstones, coral framestones
Environment:platform/shelf-margin reef
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3927
Database number:87098
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2009-03-04 03:57:43 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
13298. E. Fois. 1981. The Sass da Putia carbonate buildup (western Dolomites): biofacies succession and marginal development during the Ladinian. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 87(4):565-598 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/U. Merkel]