Ra Stua, Ampezzo area, Fanes Encrinite, near Belluno, Northern Italy (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.1° N, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 19.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fanes Encrinite Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal grainstone

• crinoidal calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Benigni. 1978. Revisione tassonomica dei Rhynchonellida Liassici di Ra Stua (Belluno) e Fanes (Bolzono). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 84(1):121-168 [A. Miller/K. Layou/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33440: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 30.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
? Gibbirhynchia pillula
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
Prionorhynchia palmaeformis, Prionorhynchia sp., Prionorhynchia quinqueplicata, Prionorhynchia flabellum
Prionorhynchia palmaeformis
45 total specimens between Ra Stua and Fanes
Prionorhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
3 total specimens between Ra Stua and Fanes
Prionorhynchia flabellum Gemmellaro 1874
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
"Calcirhynchia fascicostata" = Jakubirhynchia fascicostata, Pseudogibbirhynchia "sp. A"
"Calcirhynchia fascicostata" = Jakubirhynchia fascicostata Uhlig 1879
Pseudogibbirhynchia "sp. A" Ager 1962
48 total specimens between Ra Stua and Fanes
 Rhynchonellida - Norellidae
Pisirhynchia inversaeformis, Pisirhynchia "sp. A"
Pisirhynchia "sp. A" Buckman 1917
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Cirpa briseis
Cirpa briseis Gemmellaro 1874
27 total specimens between Ra Stua and Fanes
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Piarorhynchia reynesi, Piarorhynchia aff. pusilla, Cuneirhynchia rastuensis n. sp.
Cuneirhynchia rastuensis n. sp. Benigni 1978