ammonites
Piz da Peres, transitional beds, Dolomites (Permian of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.8° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 4.5° N, 25.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hindeodus changxingensis conodont zone, Tesero Oolite Member (Werfen Formation), Changhsingian (254.0 - 252.3 Ma)

• Basal Tesero oolite

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Posenato. 2001. The Athyridoids of the transitional beds between Bellerophon and Werfen Formations (uppermost Permian, southern Alps, Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 107(2):197-226 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101908: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2011

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