Pontalto (BMNH collection) (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (41.3° N, 13.2° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 15.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: E. F. Owen and E. P. F. Rose. 1997. Early Jurassic brachiopods from Gibraltar, and their Tethyan affinities. Palaeontology 40:497-513 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135353: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.10.2012, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Tragolytoceras bonarellii n. sp. Tomas and Pálfy 2007 ammonite
BMNH C8480 (holotype); previously Lytoceras altecinctum
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Pontaltorhynchia schopeni Di Stefano 1886