Seelandalpe (Alpe di Specie) (Zardini collection) (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.6° N, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 20.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cassian Formation, Julian (235.0 - 232.0 Ma)

• Age range indicated as Langobardian ton ?Julian, now confirmed to be early Carnian (Cordevolian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified packstone

• Patch reefs on extensive carbonate platform
• Small patch reefs, laterally grading in to oolitic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by R. Zardini

Collection methods: bulk,

• Some specimens at GPIT (Tübingen)

Primary reference: R. Zardini. 1978. Fossili Cassiani (Trias Medio-Superiore). Atlante dei Gasteropodi della formazione di S. Cassiano raccolti nella regione Dolomitica attorno a Cortina d´Ampezzo. Cortina d´Ampezzo (Edizione Ghedina) 1-58 [A. Nuetzel/A. Nuetzel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66197: authorized by Alexander Nuetzel, entered by Alexander Nuetzel on 04.10.2006, edited by Bethany Allen, Uta Merkel and Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ascidiacea
 Khmeriamorpha - Khmeriidae
Zardinisoma polyplacophorum n. sp.5 Wendt 2018 sea squirt
Zardinisoma pauciplacophorum n. sp.5 Wendt 2018 sea squirt
Zardinisoma pyriforme n. sp.5 Wendt 2018 sea squirt
Zardinisoma cassianum n. gen. n. sp.5 Wendt 2018 sea squirt
Khmeria minima n. sp.5 Wendt 2018 sea squirt
Gastropoda
 Vetigastropoda - Discohelicidae
 Heterostropha - Anoptychiidae
 Zygopleuroidea - Protorculidae
"Anoptychia canalifera" = Atorcula canalifera
"Anoptychia canalifera" = Atorcula canalifera Münster 1841 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Caenogastropoda -
Cassianozyga seelandica n. gen. n. sp.1
Cassianozyga seelandica n. gen. n. sp.1 Bandel 1991 snail
 Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
Ampezzopleura sp.1 Bandel 1991 snail
Allostrophia perversa Münster 1841 snail
 Murchisoniina - Wortheniellidae
Wortheniella cassiana4 Kittl 1891 snail
Wortheniella spuria4 Münster 1841 snail
Wortheniella coralliophila4 Kittl 1891 snail
Bandelium campense4 Zardini 1980 snail
"Wortheniella ruedigeri" = Bandelium ruedigeri4 Schwardt 1992 snail
"Wortheniella rinaldoi" = Rinaldoella rinaldoi4 Schwartz 1992 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Diplospirellidae
Diplospirella wissmanni2 Münster 1841
Diplospirella aureolata2 Cornalia 1848
Diplospirella sufflata2 Verneuil 1855
 Spiriferinida - Bittnerulidae
Bittnerula zitteli3 Bittner 1890