Bulla, Bolzano, -0.5 m (Permian of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.6° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 25.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hindeodus praeparvus conodont zone, Bulla Member (Bellerophon Limestone Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• Level A, Early praeparvus Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• dark-gray to black fossiliferous limestone (packstone-wackestone) alternating with subordinate siltstone and marls

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: E. Farabegoli, M. C. Perri, and R. Posenato. 2007. Environmental and biotic changes across the Permian-Triassic boundary in western Tethys: The Bulla parastratotype, Italy. Global and Planetary Change 55:109-135 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74937: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Anchignathodontidae
Hindeodus praeparvus Kozur 1996 conodont
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Janiceps sp. Frech 1901
Comelicothyris sp. Posenato 2001
Comelicania sp. Frech 1901
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopectinidae indet. Meek 1864 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entoliidae indet. Korobkov 1960 scallop
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808 snail
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Dentalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Frondicularia sp. Defrance 1824
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
Foraminifera
  -
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
Glomospirella sp. Plummer 1945
 Fusulinina - Colaniellidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
 Fusulinoidea - Boultoniidae
Nanlingella sp. Rui and Sheng 1981
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
 Fusulinoidea - Ozawainellidae
 Fusulinina - Pachyphloiidae
Pachyphloia sp. Lange 1925
 Fusulinina - Geinitzinidae
 Lagenina - Robuloididae
 Lagenina - Protonodosariidae
 Lagenina -
Langella sp. Sellier de Civrieux and Dessauvagie 1965
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Baisalinidae
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Hemigordius sp. Schubert 1908
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
Agathammina sp. Neumayr 1887
Foraminifera
  -
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
"Gymnocodium bellerophontis" = Gyroporella bellerophontis Rothpletz 1894
Mizzia velebitana Schubert 1908