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
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 | |
Zardinisoma polyplacophorum n. sp.5, Zardinisoma pauciplacophorum n. sp.5, Zardinisoma pyriforme n. sp.5, Zardinisoma cassianum n. gen. n. sp.5, Khmeria minima n. sp.5
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Gastropoda | |
Amphitomaria cassiana snail | |
Anoptychia multitoquata snail
Anoptychia reticulata snail | |
"Anoptychia canalifera" = Atorcula canalifera
"Anoptychia canalifera" = Atorcula canalifera Münster 1841 snail | |
Amauropsis dolasillae moon snail | |
Cassianozyga seelandica n. gen. n. sp.1
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Allostrophia perversa Münster 1841 snail | |
Wortheniella rarissima4, Wortheniella venusta4, Wortheniella crenata4, Wortheniella muensteri4, Wortheniella cassiana4, Wortheniella spuria4, Wortheniella coralliophila4, Bandelium campense4, "Wortheniella ruedigeri" = Bandelium ruedigeri4, "Wortheniella rinaldoi" = Rinaldoella rinaldoi4
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Rhynchonellata | |
Diplospirella wissmanni2 Münster 1841
Diplospirella aureolata2 Cornalia 1848
Diplospirella sufflata2 Verneuil 1855 | |
Bittnerula zitteli3 Bittner 1890 |