Gorno Formation Mount Pora Bergamasc Alps (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.9° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 18.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gorno Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; silty marl

• The Gorno Formation is interpreted as bottom deposits from a lagoon with mixed calcareous-terrigenous sedimentation.
• The Gorno Formation consists of a succession of limestones, marly sandy limestones and marls, the studied bed consists of silty marl.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical,

• Specimens are stored at the Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali 'E. Caffi' of Bergamo (Italy)

Primary reference: L. Passoni and J.H.A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert. 2003. New taxa of fossil Carnian plants from Mount Pora (Bergamasc Alps, Northern Italy). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 123:321-346 [C. Looy/F. Verbruggen/F. Verbruggen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31290: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Frederike Verbruggen on 01.05.2003, edited by Cindy Looy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Willsiostrobus cordiformus
(Grauvogel-Stamm) Grauvogel-Stamm et Schaarschmidt
? Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
indet. a, >50 fructifications consisting of sporophylls
? Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
indet. b, seeds
? Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
indet. c, stem fragments
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Anomopteris sp. Brongniart 1828
Pseudodanaeopsis
  -
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetales indet. Dumortier 1829
cone
Equisetites arenaceus
(Jaeger) Schenk
 Marattiales - Marattiidae
Asterotheca cf. meriani
(Brongniart) Stur
Marattiopsis sp. Schimper 1874
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Phlebopteris sp. Brongniart 1836
Danaeopsis
  -
Danaeopsis sp. Schimper 1869
Aethophyllum stipulare
  -
Aethophyllum cf. stipulare Brongniart 1828
Brongniart cf. Voltzia sp.
 Bennettitales -
Pterophyllum jaegeri Brongniart 1828
Brongniart
Pterophyllum cf. jaegeri Brongniart 1828
Brongniart
Zamites sp. Brongniart 1828
 Coniferales -
Coniferales indet.
seed cones
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus porensis n. sp. podocarp
Yuccites vogesiacus
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Yuccites vogesiacus Schimper and Mougeot 1844
Schimper et Mougeot
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Brachyphyllum spp. Brongniart 1828
4 species
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales - Cycadaceae
Sphenozamites bronnii cycads
(Schenk 1865) Passoni et van Konijnenburg-van Cittert comb. nov.
Sphenozamites angustipinnatus n. sp. cycads
Passoni et van Konijnenbrug-van Cittert
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris sp. Brongniart 1828 cycads
sp. 1
Taeniopteris sp. Brongniart 1828 cycads
sp. 2
Macrotaeniopteris
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Macrotaeniopteris sp. Schimper 1869