Forni di Sopra (MFSN collection) (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.4° N, 12.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° N, 15.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dolomia di Forni Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• Dolomia di Forni is late Alaunian-early Sevatian, but most of the exceptional fossils (such as decapods) come from the lower member.

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, black, carbonaceous dolomite

• It represents deposition in an anoxic marine basin whose maximum depth was about 400 m, and was surrounded by the shallow water carbonate platform of the Dolomia Principale Formation

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: MFSN (Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, Udine, Friuli, Italy)

Primary reference: A. Garassino, G. Teruzzi, and F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1996. The macruran decapod crustaceans of the Dolomia di Forni (Norian, Upper Triassic) of Carnia (Udine, NE Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 136(1):15-60 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155683: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Penaeidae
Antrimpos colettoi, Dusa longipes
Antrimpos colettoi Garassino et al. 2014 decapod
Dusa longipes Pinna 1974 decapod
 Decapoda - Aegeridae
Acanthochirana triassica, "Antrimpos noricus" = Acanthochirana norica
Acanthochirana triassica Garassino et al. 2014 decapod
"Antrimpos noricus" = Acanthochirana norica Pinna 1974 decapod
 Decapoda - Eryonidae
Rosenfeldia triassica
Rosenfeldia triassica Garassino et al. 1996 decapod
 Decapoda - Palinuridae
Archaeopalinurus levis
Archaeopalinurus levis Pinna 1974 spiny lobster