Val Camonica, Carbonate Bank, Camorelli Limestone, Lombardian Alps (Triassic of Italy)

Also known as Reef 34

Where: Italy (45.8° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 6.4° N, 22.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Camorelli Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• ?Bithynian to Pelsonian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone and lithified packstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. Gaetani and M. Gorza. 1989. The Anisian (Middle Triassic) Carbonate Bank of Camorelli (Lombardy, Southern Alps). Facies 21:41-56 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67717: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Shamovella
  -
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
  - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Duostominidae
Foraminifera
  -
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Foraminifera
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae