Where: Italy (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 21.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grenzbitumenzone Member (Besano Formation), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Grenzbitumenzone spans Illyrian-Fassanian (Anisian-Ladinian) boundary but vast majority is Illyrian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite and lithified, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan. Also contains material donated by A. Stoppani, A. Robiati, C. Fumagalli, G. Riva-Palazzi, and G. Paganini.

Primary reference: F. Bassani. 1886. Sui fossili e sull'età degli schisti bituminosi triasici di Besano in Lombardia [On the fossils and the age of the Triassic bituminous schist of Besano in Lombardy]. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturale del Museo Civili de Storia Naturali 29:15-72 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149323: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.08.2013

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