Certosa di Vedana (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Veneto, Italy (46.2° N, 12.1° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 19.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calcari Grigi Group, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• upper unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified wackestone

• condensed pelagic deposit, formed in a sedimentary trap (cavity, fissure) in the upper part of a carbonate platform
• bioclastic wackestone-floatstone, locally passing to a rudstone, reflecting a lime-muddy deposit undergone to an early consolidation

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Gatto and S. Monari. 2010. Pliensbachian gastropods from Venetian Southern Alps (Italy) and their palaeobiogeographical significance. Palaeontology 53(4):771-802 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98398: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.10.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Gordenellidae
Proacirsa (Schafbergia) crenata Stoliczka 1861 snail
 Trochoidea - Ataphridae
Ataphrus (Ataphrus) cordevolensis n. sp. Gatto and Monari 2010 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Plectotrochus sp. Szabo 2009 top snail
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
 Vetigastropoda - Discohelicidae
Discohelix excavata Reuss 1852 snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Austriacopsis austriaca, "Emarginula (Emarginula) vedanae" = Emarginula (Emarginula) vadanaei
Austriacopsis austriaca Hornes 1853 snail
"Emarginula (Emarginula) vedanae" = Emarginula (Emarginula) vadanaei Toni 1912 snail
 Patellida - Acmaeidae
 Neritoina - Neritopsidae
 Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
Guidonia pseudorotula n. sp. Gatto and Monari 2010 snail