Val di Puartis reef mounds (Carboniferous of Italy)

Also known as Reef 313

Where: Italy (46.6° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.6° S, 23.1° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Meledis Formation (Auernig Group), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• early Kasimovian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Small auloporid mounds

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Flügel and K. Krainer. 1992. Allogenic and autogenic controls of reef mound formation: Late Carboniferous auloprid coral buildups from the Carnic Alps, Italy. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 185:39-62 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49712: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Endothyroidea - Bradyinidae
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod
 Podocopida - Microcheilinellidae
Microcheilinella sp. Geis 1933 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Multithecoporidae
Multithecopora syrinx Etheridge 1900 tabulate coral