Also known as Punta dei Lavatori
Where: Sardinia, Spain (40.5° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 17.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Muschelkalk Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• "?latest Fassanian - early Longobardian" (Posenato 2002)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; claystone and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Posenato. 2002. Bivalves and other macrobenthic fauna from the Ladinian "Muschelkalk" of Punta del Lavatoio (Alghero, SW Sardinia). Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana 1:185-196 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 201607: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 15.05.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
"Budurovignathus truempyi" = Sephardiella truempyi
"Budurovignathus truempyi" = Sephardiella truempyi Hirsch 1971 conodont | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Coenothyris vulgaris Schlotheim 1820 | |
Scaphopoda | |
Laevidentalium laeve tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Enantiostreon difforme" = Terquemia difformis
"Enantiostreon difforme" = Terquemia difformis Schlotheim 1820 clam | |
Costigervillia substriata oyster
Bakevellia subcostata Goldfuss 1838 oyster
Hoernesia socialis Schlotheim 1823 oyster | |
Pleuronectites laevigatus Schlotheim 1820 scallop | |
Placunopsis plana Giebel 1856 scallop | |
Plagiostoma cf. striatum Schlotheim 1820 file clam | |
"Septifer eduliformis" = Promysidiella eduliformis
"Septifer eduliformis" = Promysidiella eduliformis Schlotheim 1820 clam | |
Costatoria goldfussi Alberti 1830 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail |