Pufler Gorge, Seiser Alm (Buchenstein Fm.) (Triassic of Italy)

Also known as Puflerbach, Pufelser Schlucht

Where: South Tyrol, Italy (46.6° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 22.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bänderkalk Member (Buchenstein Formation), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• "Upper Buchenstein" (Ogilvie Gordon, 1927) probably refers to Bänderkalk

•Bänderkalk Member is late Early - early Late Ladinian in age (Wotzlaw et al. 2017)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. M. Ogilvie Gordon. 1927. Das Grödener-, Fassa- und Enneberggebiet in den Südtiroler Dolomiten: Geologische Beschreibung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Überschiebungserscheinungen. Teil III. Paläontologie. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 24(2):1-88 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205140: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 07.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Joannitidae
Joannites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
"Trachyceras reitzi" = Reitziites reitzi
"Trachyceras reitzi" = Reitziites reitzi Boeckh 1875 ceratite
 Bennettitales -
Voltziopsida
 Voltziales - Voltziaceae
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Pecopteris sp. Brongniart 1822