Bulla, Bolzano, 1.7 m (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.6° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.9° N, 25.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tesero Member (Werfen Formation), Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• Level D, Parvus Zone, Lower Tesero Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• parallel-bedded and often lenticular microbialitic layers, silty marls and siltstones, packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: E. Farabegoli, M. C. Perri, and R. Posenato. 2007. Environmental and biotic changes across the Permian-Triassic boundary in western Tethys: The Bulla parastratotype, Italy. Global and Planetary Change 55:109-135 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74941: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.09.2007

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Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Hemigordius sp. Schubert 1908
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Geinitzinidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
Nankinella sp. Lee 1933
Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Gymnocodium sp. Pia 1927
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Anchignathodontidae
Hindeodus parvus Kozur 1975 conodont
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entoliidae indet. Korobkov 1960 scallop
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
"Bellerophon vaceki" = Warthia vaceki
"Bellerophon vaceki" = Warthia vaceki Bittner 1899 snail