Where: Italy (46.0° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lombardische Kieselkalk Formation, Bucklandi (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• Lower Sinemurian, bucklandi zone. "Fossil remains are present throughout the whole thickness of the fossiliferous seies... The majority of these have been found between 1964 and 1979, without any precise indication of their position within the stratigraphic sequence"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, pyritic lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by G. Pinna in 1964 to 1979

• Museum of Natural History of Milan collection

Primary reference: G. Pinna. 1985. Exceptional preservation in the Jurassic of Osteno. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 311:171-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90673: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.08.2009, edited by Matthew Clapham

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