Lower Triassic, Passo Valles, Italy: Early Triassic, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
1 individual
associated with the ichnite Asteriacites
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Eumorphotis hinnitidea (Bittner 1898)
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Costatoria subrotunda (Bittner 1901)
Gastropoda - Naticopsidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Veneto
Coordinates: 46.3° North, 11.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.7° North, 36.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1141 meters
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Early Triassic
10 m.y. bin: Triassic 1
Key time interval: Early Triassic
Age range of interval: 251.902 - 246.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Costabella Formation:Werfen Member:Campil
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Stratigraphy is based on that one proposed by Broglio et al. 1983, 1986.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:wave ripples,red lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Mixed lithofacies: sand content 10-90%, transitionally increasing from the base to the top of the sets. This facies consists of a close spaced alternation of red pelite and sandy storm layers a few centimetre thick.
Environment:shoreface
Geology comments: The sedimentary environment was a shallow shelf.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace,recrystallized,dissolution traces,replaced with dolomite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:variable
Articulated whole bodies:all
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:none
Disassociated minor elements:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:77392
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:J. Millet
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-01-10 08:03:13 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-10 08:03:13
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

26197. C. Broglio Loriga, F. Goczan, J. Haas, K. Lenner, C. Neri, A.S. Oravecz, R. Posenato, I. Szabo, and A.M. Toth. 1990. The lower Triassic sequences of the Dolomites (Italy) and transdanubian mid-mountains (Hungary) and their correlation. Memorie di Scienze Geologiche 42:41-103 [L. Villier/J. Millet/J. Millet]