Where: Italy (46.7° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 4.5° N, 25.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bulla Member (Bellerophon Formation), Changhsingian (254.0 - 252.3 Ma)

• Float from lower Comelicania beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: R. Posenato. 1989. Chronological and geographical distribution of the fam. Comelicaniidae Merla, 1930 (Brachiopoda). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 94(3):383-400 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122122: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2011

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