Vaccuta unit, Facies B4: Isognomonid bivalves clusters (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (39.7° N, 15.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Epigondolella slovakensis conodont zone, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• Late Norian

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; rudstone

• Shallow-water carbonate ramp with basinal deposits
• sub-metric lens-form rudstone beds

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: E. Perri, M. Borrelli, M. P. Bernasconi, L. Gindre‑Chanu, A. Spadafora and S. Critelli. 2019. Microbial‑dominated carbonate depositional systems: a biosedimentary and stratigraphic reconstruction in the Late Triassic of Western Tethys (northern Calabria, Italy). Facies 65(31) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201689: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Malleidae
"Isognomon exilis" = Isognomon (Isognomon) exilis
"Isognomon exilis" = Isognomon (Isognomon) exilis Stoppani 1857 oyster
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Epigondolella slovakensis Kozur and Mock 2000 conodont