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Rotzo Formation

{{short description|Jurassic geological formation in Italy}}

{{Infobox rockunit

| name = Rotzo Formation

| image = Panorma di Rotzo.jpg

| caption = Panorama of the Rotzo area with several of the Outcrops visible: Tonezza mountain at the left, Val d´Assa cliff in the center-front and Campolongo mountain in the right

| type = Geological formation

| age = Early Pliensbachian
~{{fossil range|192|187}}

| prilithology = Lithified gray silty marl, gray grainstone, bioturbated/intraclastic/ooidal gray wackestone, mud banks and sand deposits.{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicCollectionSearch?collection_no=88592|title=PBDB}}

| otherlithology = Light-grey to yellowish-grey packstone with oolites, bioclasts, algal lumps, pellets, dasycladacean algae, foraminifera, lituolids, and miliolids

| period = Pliensbachian

| namedfor = Rotzo

| namedby =

| region = {{RegioneIT|sigla=VEN}}

| location = Vicenza Province: Trentino-Alto Adige, Southern Alps

| country = {{ITA}}

| coordinates = {{coord|45.7|N|11.1|E|region:IT|display=inline,title}}

| paleocoordinates = {{coord|32.1|S|16.7|E|display=inline}}

| unitof = Calcari Grigi Group

| subunits = Tovel Member{{cite journal |last1=Castellarin |first1=A. |last2=Picotti |first2=V. |last3=Cantelli |first3=L. |last4=Claps |first4=M. |last5=Trombetta |first5=L. |last6=Selli |first6=L. |last7=Carton |first7=A. |last8=Borsato |first8=A. |last9=Daminato |first9=F. |last10=Nardin |first10=M. |last11=Santuliana |first11=E. |last12=Veronese |first12=L. |last13=Bollettinari |first13=G. |title=Note Illustrative della Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000, Foglio 080 Riva del Garda |journal=Dipartimento Difesa del Suolo, Servizio Geologico d'Italia |date=2005 |volume=56 |issue=2 |page=145 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287201253 |access-date=24 January 2022}}

| underlies = Massone Oolitic Limestone

| overlies = *Monte Zugna Formation

| thickness = 250 m

| extent =

| area = Trento Platform

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| lat_deg = 45.7

| lon_deg = 11.1

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The Rotzo Formation (also known in older literature as the Noriglio Grey Limestone Formation) is a geological formation in Italy, dating to roughly between 192 and 186 million years ago and covering the Pliensbachian stage of the Jurassic Period in the Mesozoic Era.{{cite journal |last1=Broglio Loriga |first1=C. |last2=Neri |first2=C. |title=Aspetti paleobiologici e paleogeografici delle facies "Lithiotis" (Giurese inf.) |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |date=1976 |volume=82 |issue=1 |pages=651–151}} Has been traditionally classified as a Sinemurian-Pliensbachian Formation, but a large and detailed dataset of isotopic 13C and 87Sr/86Sr data, estimated the Rotzo Formation to span only over the Early Pliensbachian, bracketed between the Jamesoni-Davoei biozones, marked in the Loppio Oolitic Limestone–Rotzo Fm contact by a carbon isotope excursion onset similar to the Sinemu-Pliens boundary event, while the other sequences fit with the a warm phase that lasts until the Davoei biozone.{{cite journal |last1=Franceschi |first1=M. |last2=Dal Corso |first2=J. |last3=Posenato |first3=R. |last4=Roghi |first4=G. |last5=Masetti |first5=D. |last6=Jenkyns |first6=H. C. |title=Early Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) C-isotope perturbation and the diffusion of the Lithiotis Fauna: Insights from the western Tethys |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |date=2014 |volume=410 |issue=1 |pages=255–263 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.025 |bibcode=2014PPP...410..255F |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262771459 |access-date=12 November 2021}} The Rotzo Formation represented the Carbonate Platform, being located over the Trento Platform and surrounded by the Massone Oolite (marginal calcarenitic bodies), the Fanes Piccola Encrinite (condensed deposits and emerged lands), the Lombadian Basin Medolo Group and Belluno Basin Soverzene Formation (open marine), and finally towards the south, deep water deposits of the Adriatic Basin.{{cite journal |last1=Masetti |first1=D. |last2=Fantoni |first2=R. |last3=Romano |first3=R. |last4=Sartorio |first4=D. |last5=Trevisani |first5=E. |title=Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Jurassic extensional basins of the eastern southern Alps and Adriatic foreland based on an integrated study of surface and subsurface data |journal=AAPG Bulletin |date=2012 |volume=96 |issue=11 |pages=2065–2089 |doi=10.1306/03091211087 |bibcode=2012BAAPG..96.2065M |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/aapgbull/article-abstract/96/11/2065/133167/Tectonostratigraphic-evolution-of-the-Jurassic|access-date=12 November 2021}} The Pliensbachian Podpeč Limestone of Slovenia, the Aganane Formation & the Calcaires du Bou Dahar of Morocco represent regional equivalents, both in deposition and faunal content.

Fossil prosauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.{{cite journal |last1=Mietto |first1=P. |last2=Roghi |first2=G. |last3=Zorzin |first3=R. |title=Le impronte di dinosauri liassici dei Monti Lessini Veronesi [The Liassic dinosaur tracks from the Veronese Monti Lessini]|journal=Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona. Geologia Paleontologia Preistoria |date=2000 |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=55–72}} This formation was deposited within a tropical lagoon environment, similar to modern Bahamas which was protected by oolitic shoals and bars from the open deep sea located to the east (Belluno Basin) and towards the west (Lombardia Basin). It is characterized by a rich paleontological content. It is notable mostly thanks to its great amount of big aberrant bivalves, among which is the genus Lithiotis, described in the second half of the nineteenth century. The unusual shape of Lithiotis and Cochlearites shells, extremely elongated and narrow, characterized by a spoon-like body space placed in a high position, rarely preserved, seems to suggest their adaptation to soft and muddy bottoms with a high sedimentation rate.{{cite journal|last1=Masseti|first1=D. |last2=Posenato |first2=R. |last3=Bassi |first3=D. |last4=Fungagnoli |first4=A. |title=The Rotzo Formation (Lower Jurassic) at the Valbona Pass (Vicenza Province) |journal=IRIS Università degli Studi di Ferrara |date=2005 |volume=31 |issue=5 |pages=35–56 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292707238 |access-date=3 January 2022}} The Bellori outcrop displays about 20 m of limestones with intercalated clays and marls rich in organic matter and sometimes fossil wood (coal) and amber. The limestones are well stratified, with beds 10 cm to more than one metre thick, whereas the clayey levels range between 3 and 40 cm in thickness.{{cite journal |last1=Neri |first1=Mirco |last2=Papazzoni |first2=Cesare Andrea |last3=Vescogni |first3=Alessandro |last4=Roghi |first4=Guido |title=Cyclical variation in paleoenvironments of the Rotzo formation (Lower Jurassic, Lessini Mts., N Italy) |journal=STAMPA |date=2015 |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=74–75}}{{cite journal |last1=Urban |first1=I. |title=Petrografia e geochimica delle ooliti del Giurassico inferiore della Piattaforma di Trento |journal=Area 04 - Scienze della Terra > GEO/02 Geologia Stratigrafica e Sedimentologica |date=2017 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1–203 |url=http://tesi.cab.unipd.it/56909/ |access-date=3 January 2022}}

Paleoenvironment

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The sedimentary cover of the Southern Alps has been recognized as a well-preserved section of the Mesozoic Tethys' southern continental margin, featuring a horst and graben structure linked to the rifting associated with the opening of the central North Atlantic that in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic, created elevated blocks separated by troughs. While the western margin (Piedmont and Lombardy) quickly submerged in the Early Jurassic (As seen by the Saltrio Formation & Moltrasio Formation), the eastern regions maintained shallow water sedimentation, including the Friuli and Trento Platforms, this last one latter evolving into a pelagic plateau, and separated from the Lombardian basin by the Garda escarpment fault system.{{Cite journal |last1=Castellarin |first1=A. |last2=Picotti |first2=V. |date=1990 |title=Jurassic tectonic framework of the eastern border of the Lombardian basin |journal=Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae |volume=83 |issue=3 |pages=683–700}}

The Early Jurassic Calcari Grigi Group represents the shallow-water sedimentation phase of the Trento Platform, revealing several sites over an area of about 1,500 km2. The continuity of dinosaur tracks from the Hettangian-Pliensbachian interval indicates a stable connection between the Southern Alps' carbonate tidal flats and nearby vegetated lands and freshwater sources, although the exact locations of these lands remain uncertain.{{Cite journal |last1=Bernardi |first1=M. |last2=Petti |first2=F. M. |last3=Avanzini |first3=M. |date=2010 |title=Palaeoenvironmental implications of Asteriacites lumbricalis in the coste dell'Anglone sinemurian dinosaur ichnosite (NE Italy) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250305294 |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=1–8}} Detailed sedimentological studies of the Calcari Grigi Group, particularly the Rotzo Formation, describe it as a shallow subtidal platform with an inner lagoon bordered by oolitic shoals.

The Coste dell’Anglone ichnosite for example, situated on the margin of this lagoon within a sandy barrier complex, was influenced by pioneer plants like Hirmeriellaceae in semi-arid conditions. Sedimentary structures indicate a shallow water tidal environment with heterolithic stratification pointing to steady flows at low current velocities. The presence of dinosaur tracks and supratidal markers suggests repeated subaerial exposure, contrasting with previous interpretations of the site as fully subtidal.

These findings align with the lagoon-barrier island complex scenario, featuring a subtidal ramp gently inclined to the west and an intertidal-supratidal barrier island complex trending approximately N-S, now corresponding to the Mt. Brento-Biaina and Mt. Baldo chains.

Amoebae

The presence of the families Centropyxidae and Difflugiidae testifies the presence of a mixed marine-terrestrial depositional system, lacking large bodies of water.

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Centropyxis

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  • C. sp.

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Tonezza del Cimone

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

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A testate amoebae, member of the family Centropyxidae inside Arcellinida.

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File:Collection Penard MHNG Specimen 691-1-3 Centropyxis aculeata.tif]]

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Difflugia{{Cite journal |last1=BASSI |first1=DAVIDE |last2=FUGAGNOLI |first2=ANNA |last3=POSENATO |first3=RENATO |last4=SCOTT |first4=DAVID B. |title=Testate Amoebae from the Early Jurassic of the Western Tethys, North-East Italy |date=2008 |journal=Palaeontology |volume=51 |issue=6 |pages=1335–1339 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00817.x |s2cid=129670565 |issn=0031-0239|doi-access=free |bibcode=2008Palgy..51.1335B }}

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  • D. sp.

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Tonezza del Cimone

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

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A testate amoebae, member of the family Difflugiidae inside Arcellinida.

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File:Difflugia urceolata.jpg]]

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Pontigulasia

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  • P. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Tonezza del Cimone

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

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A testate amoebae, member of the family Difflugiidae inside Arcellinida.

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File:Collection Penard MHNG Specimen 574-1-2 Pontigulasia vas.tif]]

Foranimifera

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Agerina{{Cite journal |last=Fugagnoli |first=Anna |date=2004 |title=Trophic regimes of benthic foraminiferal assemblages in Lower Jurassic shallow water carbonates from northeastern Italy (Calcari Grigi, Trento Platform, Venetian Prealps) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2003.12.004 |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=205 |issue=1–2 |pages=111–130 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2003.12.004 |bibcode=2004PPP...205..111F |issn=0031-0182}}

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  • A. martana

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Cornuspiridae family

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Ammobaculites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • A. coprolithiformis

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the family Ammomarginulininae.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Amijiella

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  • A. amiji

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Hauraniidae family

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Bosniella

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  • B. oenensis

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Biokovinidae family

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Cymbriaella{{Cite journal |last=Fugagnoli |first=Anna |date=1999 |title=Cymbriaella, a new foraminiferal genus (textulariina) from the early jurassic of the venetian prealps (Northeastern Italy) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0035-1598(99)90102-2 |journal=Revue de Micropaléontologie |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=99–110 |doi=10.1016/s0035-1598(99)90102-2 |bibcode=1999RvMic..42...99F |issn=0035-1598}}

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  • C. Iorigae

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  • Monte di Campoluzzo
  • Alpe Alba

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Hauraniidae family

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Duotaxis{{Cite journal |last=Fugagnoli |first=A. |date=1996 |title=On the occurrence of Duotaxis metula Kristan (Foraminifera) in the Lower Jurassic (Calcari Grigi, Venetian Prealps, Italy). |url=https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetail&idt=15077089 |journal=Revue de paléobiologie |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=385–392}}

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  • D. metula

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Verneuilinoidinae family

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Everticyclammina{{Cite journal |last=Fugagnoli |first=A. |date=2000-04-01 |title=First Record Of Everticyclammina Redmond 1964 (E. Praevirguliana N. Sp.; Foraminifera) From The Early Jurassic Of The Venetian Prealps (Calcari Grigi, Trento Platform, Northern Italy) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/0300126 |journal=The Journal of Foraminiferal Research |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=126–134 |bibcode=2000JForR..30..126F |doi=10.2113/0300126 |issn=0096-1191}}

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  • E. praevirguliana

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  • Camporosa
  • Rotzo
  • Monte Cimoncello di Toraro
  • Monte di Campoluzz

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Everticyclamminidae family.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Frondicularia

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  • F. sp.

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  • Bellori
  • Garzon di Scotto
  • Ponte dell`Anguillara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the family Nodosariinae.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Glomospira

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  • G. sp.

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the family Ammodiscidae.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Haurania

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  • H. amiji
  • H. deserta
  • H. ssp.

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara
  • Bellori
  • Garzon di Scotto
  • Ponte dell`Anguillara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the family Hauraniinae.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Lituosepta{{Cite journal |last1=Fugagnoli |first1=Anna |last2=Bassi |first2=Davide |date=2015 |title=Taxonomic And Biostratigraphic Reassessment Of Lituosepta Recoarensis Cati, 1959 (Foraminifera, Lituolacea) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.45.4.402 |journal=The Journal of Foraminiferal Research |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=402–412 |doi=10.2113/gsjfr.45.4.402 |bibcode=2015JForR..45..402F |hdl=11392/2337234 |issn=0096-1191|hdl-access=free }}

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  • L. recoarensis
  • L. compressa
  • L. ssp.

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara
  • Bellori
  • Ponte dell`Anguillara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Mesoendothyridae family.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Meandrovoluta{{Cite journal |last1=Fugagnoli |first1=A. |last2=Giannetti |first2=A. |last3=Rettori |first3=R. |date=2003 |title=A new foraminiferal genus (Miliolina) from the Early Jurassic of the Southern Alps (Calcari Grigi Formation, Northeastern Italy). |url=https://www.academia.edu/download/42795358/A_New_Foraminiferal_Genus_Miliolina_Fr20160218-31713-1f3315n.pdf |journal=Revista Española de Micropaleontología |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=43–50}}

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  • M. asiagoensis

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Monte Baldo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Cornuspiridae family

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Mayncina

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  • M. termieri

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  • Garzon di Scotto
  • Bellori
  • Ponte dell`Anguillara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Mayncinidae family

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Orbitopsella

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  • O. primaeva
  • O. preacursor
  • O. dubari
  • O. circumvulvata
  • O. spp.

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Campomolon
  • Bellori
  • Ponte dell`Anguillara
  • Sega di Noriglio
  • Rotzo
  • Val d’Assa
  • Monte Gallo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Mesoendothyridae family.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Ophtalmidium

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  • O. concentricum
  • O. sp.

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the family Ophthalmidiidae.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Paleomayncina

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  • P. termieri

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Planiseptinae family.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Pseudocyclammina

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  • P. liasica
  • P. spp.

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Pfenderinidae family.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Pseudopfenderina

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  • P. cf. butterlini

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  • Altopiano di Asiago
  • Tonezza del Cimone
  • Altopiano di Folgaria
  • Recoaro
  • Gruppo del Pasubio
  • Monte Baldo
  • Monte Scandolara

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Isolated Tests/Shells

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A foraminifer of the Pseudopfenderininae family.

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Invertebrates

Microfossils of the Rotzo Formation consist of benthic foraminifera, calcareous algae, Ostracoda and coprolites. Foraminifera are mainly benthic agglutinated species belonging to the superfamily Lituolacea (suborder Textulariina), while lamellar and porcellaneous-walled species are very rare.{{cite journal |last1=Monaco |first1=P. |last2=Giannetti |first2=A. |title=Stratigrafia tafonomica nel Giurassico inferiore dei Calcari Grigi della Piattaforma di Trento |journal=Atti Ticinensi di Scienze della Terra |date=2001 |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=175–209 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233741320 |access-date=3 January 2022}} The bivalve Opisoma excavatum is very common.{{cite journal |last1=Posenato |first1=R. |title=Opisoma excavatum Boehm, a Lower Jurassic photosymbiotic alatoform-chambered bivalve |journal=Lethaia |date=2013 |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=424–437 |doi=10.1111/let.12020 |bibcode=2013Letha..46..424P |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257390499 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

=Sponges=

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Chaetetes{{cite journal |last1=Avanzini |first1=M. |last2=Broglio Loriga |first2=C. |title=Chaetetid facies from the uppermost Calcari Grigi of the Southern Alps (Lower Jurassic, Gruppo del Pasubio, Trento, Italy) |journal=Memorie di Scienze Geologiche Università di Padova |date=1996 |volume=48 |pages=55–64 |url=https://galileodiscovery.unipd.it/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=39UPD_INST:VU1&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&tab=Everything&docid=alma990032404020206046&context=L |access-date=20 January 2024}}

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  • C. (Pseudoseptifer) waehneri

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  • Lancia refuge
  • Alpe Alba
  • Col Santo

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Colonial Imprints

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A Chaetetidan Demosponge, member of Chaetetinae. Monospecific assamblages with encrusting and symbiont forms are found abundantly on lagoonal facies, distributed in several stratigraphic horizons.

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File:Chaetetes (8109235590).jpg

= Anthozoa =

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Isastrea{{Cite journal |last=Geyer |first=O. F. |date=1977 |title=Die "Lithiotis-Kalke" im Bereich der unterjurassischen Tethys |url=https://info.igme.es/ConsultaSID/presentacion.asp?Id=9219 |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=153 |issue=3 |pages=304–340}}

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  • I. sp.

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  • Rotzo

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Colonial Imprints

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A Scleractinian Coral, member of Montlivaltiidae. This Coral is often found in the Early Jurassic Tethys range, from the Iberian peninsula to Morocco.

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Montlivaltia{{Cite journal |last=von Gloeckelsthurn |first=L. T. |date=1890 |title=Zur Kenntnis der Fauna der" Grauen Kalke" der Südalpen |url=https://opac.geologie.ac.at/ais312/dokumente/Band15-2.pdf |journal=Lithographirten Tafeln. |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=1-80}}

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  • M. trochoidiformis

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  • Rotzo
  • Sega di Noriglio

|Colonial Imprints

|A Scleractinian Coral, member of Montlivaltiidae.

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Pinacophyllum

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  • cf. P. sp.

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  • Rotzo

|Colonial Imprints

|A Scleractinian Coral, member of Stylophyllidae

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Stylophyllopsis

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  • S. ex gr. rudis

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  • Rotzo

|Colonial Imprints

|A Scleractinian Coral, member of Stylophyllidae

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Synastrea

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  • S. sp.

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  • Rotzo

|Colonial Imprints

|A Scleractinian Coral, member of Synastraeidae

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=Brachiopod=

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Gibbirhynchia

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  • G. curviceps

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  • Sospirolo

|Isolated Shells

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A Rhynchonellidan, member of Gibbirhynchiinae. Unusual genus in the Mediterranean region, more common on NW Europe

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Hesperithyris

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  • H. renieri

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  • Cornacalda
  • Roveredo

|Isolated Shells

|A Rhynchonellidan, member of Zeilleriidae.

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Linguithyris

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  • L. aspasia

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  • Ballino
  • Sospirolo

|Isolated Shells

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A Terebratulidan, member of Nucleatidae. Typical Mediterranean region taxon in the Pliensbachian

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Liospiriferina{{cite journal |last1=Vörös |first1=A. |title=Jurassic microplate movements and brachiopod migrations in the western part of the Tethys |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |date=1993 |volume=100 |issue=1–2 |pages=125–145 |doi=10.1016/0031-0182(93)90037-J |bibcode=1993PPP...100..125V |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0031-0182%2893%2990037-J |access-date=13 November 2023}}

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  • L. obtusa
  • L. torbolensis

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  • Cortina d'Ampezzo
  • Sospirolo
  • Torbole
  • Roveredo

|Isolated Shells

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A spiriferidan, member of Spiriferinidae.

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File:Liospiriferina rostrata Noir.jpg

Liothyrina

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  • L. norigliensis

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  • Rotzo
  • Sega di Noriglio
  • Cornacalda

|Isolated Shells

|A Terebratulidan, member of Terebratellidae.

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Lobothyris

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  • L. punctata

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  • Cornacalda
  • Roveredo

|Isolated Shells

|A Terebratulidan, member of Lobothyrididae.

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Lychnothyris{{Cite journal |last1=Bassi |first1=Davide |last2=Angiolini |first2=Lucia |last3=Nebelsick |first3=James H. |last4=Posenato |first4=Renato |date=2024 |title=Success and demise of exceptionally preserved terebratulide brachiopod accumulations in a Jurassic (early Pliensbachian) tropical lagoonal setting (Southern Alps, Italy): Brachiopod response to environmental changes |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=648 |pages=112262 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112262 |issn=0031-0182|doi-access=free |bibcode=2024PPP...64812262B }}

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  • L. rotzoana

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  • Sette Comuni
  • Erbezzo
  • Vajo dell'Anguilla
  • Cimoncello di Toraro
  • Campomolon

|Isolated Shells

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A Terebratulidan, member of Plectoconchidae. The main Branchiopod locally associated with the local Lithiotid facies, where they formed rare mass occurrences at discrete intervals.

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Merophricus

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  • M. mediterranea

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  • Val d'Assa

|Isolated Shells

|A Terebratulidan, member of Plectoconchidae.

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Plectothyris

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  • P.? fimbrioides

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  • Cornacalda
  • Roveredo

|Isolated Shells

|A Terebratulidan, member of Loboidothyrididae.

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Prionorhynchia

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  • P.? flabellum

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  • Cortina d'Ampezzo
  • Sospirolo

|Isolated Shells

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A spiriferidan, member of Spiriferinidae.

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Waldheimia

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  • W. hexagona

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  • Roveredo

|Isolated Shells

|A Terebratulidan, member of Terebratellidae.

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=Bivalves=

The Rotzo Formation is known mostly due to its massive bivalve associations of the genera Lithiotis, Cochlearites and Lithioperna that extended all along the Pliensbachian Trento Platform forming mass accumulations of specimens that formed Reef-Like structures.{{cite journal |last1=Franceschi |first1=M. |last2=Dal Corso |first2=J. |last3=Posenato |first3=R. |last4=Roghi |first4=G. |last5=Masetti |first5=D. |last6=Jenkyns |first6=H.C. |title=Early Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) C-isotope perturbation and the diffusion of the Lithiotis Fauna: Insights from the western Tethys |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |date=2014 |volume=410 |issue=4 |pages=255–263 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.025 |bibcode=2014PPP...410..255F |url=https://www.academia.edu/18803196 |access-date=3 January 2022}} This fauna appeared after the early Pliensbachian C-cycle perturbation, that triggered the diffusion of the Lithiotis Fauna, noted on the rapid widespread of this biota after the event layers. All of the genera related with this fauna appeared on the lower Jurassic, and all but one became extinct before the Middle Jurassic.{{cite journal |last1=Fraser |first1=N.M. |last2=Bottjer |first2=D.J. |last3=Fischer |first3=A.G. |title=Dissecting "Lithiotis" Bivalves: Implications for the Early Jurassic Reef Eclipse |journal=PALAIOS |date=2004 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=51–67 |doi=10.1669/0883-1351(2004)019<0051:DLBIFT>2.0.CO;2 |bibcode=2004Palai..19...51F |s2cid=128632794 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250082892 |access-date=3 January 2022}} This "Reefs" had a strong zonation, starting with the bivalves Gervilleioperna and Mytiloperna, restricted to intertidal and shallow-subtidal facies. Lithioperna is limited to lagoonal subtidal facies and even in some low-oxygen environments. Finally Lithiotis and Cochlearites are found in subtidal facies, constructing buildups. This sections formed various kinds of ecosystems on the Trento platform, where it appeared in branched corals filled with (Spongiomorpha), Domal corals (Stromatoporida), tubular corals, Styllophyllidae corals, unidentified Cerioidea colonial corals, regular echinoid debris, sponges, and the solitary coral Opelismilia sp., with also aggregated snail shells.

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Astarte

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  • A. serradensis
  • A. kamarika
  • A. depressaeformis

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  • Serrada
  • Albaredo
  • Castel Lizzana
  • Rotzo
  • Cornacalda

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Astartidae.

|File:Astarte gracilis 02.jpg

Avicula{{Cite book |last=Lepsius |first=R. G. |title=Das Westliche Süd-Tirol: geologisch dargestellt. Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz |date=1878}}

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  • A. spinicosta

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  • Noriglio

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Aviculidae.

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Cardinia

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  • C. rotzoana

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  • Rotzo

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Cardiniidae.

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Ceromya

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  • C. tirolensis

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  • Sega di Noriglio
  • Cornacalda
  • Rotzo
  • Serrada

|Isolated Shells

|A piddock, member of Ceromyidae.

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Cochlearites

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  • C. loppianus

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  • Vaio del Paradiso
  • Bellori
  • Vaio dell'Anguilla
  • Campodalbero
  • Pasubio
  • Albaredo
  • Giazzera
  • Valgola
  • Valbona
  • Rotzo
  • Mezzaselv

|Isolated & Accumulated shells

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An oyster, member of Plicatostylidae. It is one of the Three main bivalves recovered on the Lithiotis Facies, with its accumulations generally overlying megalodontid coquinas.

|File:Plicatostylidae_anatomy_cropped_Cochlearites.jpg]]

Cucullaea

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  • C. cf. hettangiensis

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  • Rotzo
  • Roveredo

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Cucullaeidae.

|File:Cucullaea labiata.JPG

Cypricardinia

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  • C. incurvata
  • C. sp.

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  • Noriglio
  • Cornacalda
  • Rotzo
  • Serrada

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Trapezidae.

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Cyprina

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  • C. candataeformis
  • C. grandiformis

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  • Rotzo

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Arcticidae.

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Eomiodon{{cite journal |last1=Bassi |first1=D. |last2=Boomer |first2=I. |last3=Fugagnoli |first3=A. |last4=Loriga |first4=C. |last5=Posenato |first5=R. |last6=Whatley |first6=R.C. |title=Faunal assemblages and palaeoenvironment of shallow water black shales in the Tonezza area (Calcari Grigi, Early Jurassic, Southern Alps) |journal=Annali dell'Università di Ferrara, Sezione di Scienze della Terra |date=1999 |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=1–16 |url=http://opac.isprambiente.it/sebina/repository/catalogazione/immagini/pdf/Bassi%201999.pdf |access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Posenato |first1=R. |last2=Masetti |first2=D. |title=Environmental control and dynamics of Lower Jurassic bivalve build-ups in the Trento Platform (Southern Alps, Italy) |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |date=2012 |volume=361 |issue=2 |pages=1–13 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.07.001 |bibcode=2012PPP...361....1P |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018212003902 |access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Posenato |first1=R. |last2=Bassi |first2=D. |last3=Avanzini |first3=M. |title=Bivalve pavements from shallow-water black-shales in the Early Jurassic of northern Italy: A record of salinity-and oxygen-depleted environmental dynamics |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |date=2013 |volume=369 |issue=2 |pages=262–271 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.10.032 |bibcode=2013PPP...369..262P |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250304896 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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  • E. serradensis
  • E. baroni
  • E. gardeti
  • E. vulgaris

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  • Vaio del Paradiso
  • Bellori
  • Vaio dell'Anguilla
  • Campodalbero
  • Pasubio
  • Albaredo
  • Giazzera
  • Valgola
  • Valbona
  • Rotzo
  • Mezzaselv

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Isolated Shells

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A clam, member of Neomiodontidae. The so-called Eomiodon horizon represents the lower Rotzo Formation, composed of organic-rich marlstones with abundant specimens of this genus, typical of stressed environment with low salinity. This genus considered an opportunistic shallow infaunal suspension feeder, and the marker genus for brackish environments.

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style="background:#FEF6E4;" |Gastrochaenolites{{Cite journal |last=Bassi |first=Davide |last2=Posenato |first2=Renato |last3=Nebelsick |first3=James H. |last4=Owada |first4=Masato |last5=Domenicali |first5=Enrica |last6=Iryu |first6=Yasufumi |date=2017-10-03 |title=Bivalve borings in Lower Jurassic Lithiotis fauna from northeastern Italy and its palaeoecological interpretation |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2016.1265956 |journal=Historical Biology |volume=29 |issue=7 |pages=937–946 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1265956 |issn=0891-2963|hdl=11392/2373090 |hdl-access=free }}

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  • G. messisbugi

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |Column at Main Post Office of Ferrara, Italy

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |Clavate, smooth borings

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Borings over Opisoma shells

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |File:Miocene_Bored_Cobble_Cut_labeled.jpg]]

Gervillia{{cite journal |last1=Negri |first1=A. |date=1891 |title=Sopra alcuni fossili: raccolti nei Calcari grigi dei sette comuni |url=https://archive.org/details/bollettinodella04italgoog/page/n343/mode/2up?q=Rotzoanum |journal=Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital. |volume=10 |issue=6 |pages=309–331}}

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  • G. buchi
  • G. lamellosa
  • G. volanensis
  • G. mandriolana
  • G. spp.

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  • Vaio del Paradiso
  • Bellori
  • Vaio dell'Anguilla
  • Campodalbero
  • Pasubio
  • Albaredo
  • Giazzera
  • Valgola
  • Valbona
  • Rotzo
  • Mezzaselv
  • Noriglio
  • Cornacalda
  • Serrada

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Isolated Shells

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An Oyster, member of Bakevelliidae. Found on greater accumulations on lower shale-dominated levels

|File:Gervillia inflata - retico azzarola lc.JPG

Gervilleioperna{{cite journal |last1=Posenato |first1=R. |last2=Avanzini |first2=M. |title=Short note–Nota breve "Lithiotis" beds of the Rotzo Formation (Calcari Grigi Group, Lower Jurassic) from Albaredo (Rovereto, Trento) |journal=Studi Trent. Sci. Nat., Acta Geol. |date=2004 |volume=81 |issue=6 |pages=23–28 |url=https://www2.muse.it/pubblicazioni/6/actaG81/02acta%20g%20posenato.pdf |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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  • G. ombonii
  • G. sp.

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  • Vaio del Paradiso
  • Bellori
  • Vaio dell'Anguilla
  • Campodalbero
  • Pasubio
  • Albaredo
  • Giazzera
  • Valgola
  • Valbona
  • Rotzo
  • Mezzaselv

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Isolated Shells

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An oyster, member of Plicatostylidae. On the Rotzo formation this genus become abundant along rootlets, indicative of a very shallow and restricted lagoon or marsh environment.

|File:Plicatostylidae_anatomy_cropped_Gervilleioperna.jpg]]

Gresslya

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  • G. elongata

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  • Vajo dell'Anguilla
  • Cimoncello di Toraro
  • Campomolon
  • Noriglio

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Ceratomyidae.

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Gryphaea

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  • G. mimaeformis

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  • Rotzo

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Gryphaeidae.

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Homomya

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  • H. cf. punctifera

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  • Sega di Noriglio

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Pleuromyidae.

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Lima

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  • L. norigliensis
  • L. choffati
  • L. gigantea

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  • Cornacalda
  • Sega di Noriglio

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Limidae.

|File:Lima vulgaris 02.jpg

Liostrea

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  • L. sublamellosa
  • L. sp.

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  • Sega di Noriglio

|Isolated Shells

|A oyster, member of the family Flemingostreidae.

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Lithophaga

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  • L. tirolensis

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  • Sega di Noriglio

|Isolated Shells

|A mussel, member of the family Mytilidae.

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Lithioperna

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  • L. scutata
  • L. spp.

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  • Vaio del Paradiso
  • Bellori
  • Vaio dell'Anguilla
  • Campodalbero
  • Pasubio
  • Albaredo
  • Giazzera
  • Valgola
  • Valbona
  • Rotzo
  • Mezzaselv

|Isolated & Accumulated shells

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An oyster, member of Plicatostylidae. A large bivalve, up to 70 cm length. This genus was found to be a bivalve with a byssate juvenile stage that developed different modes of life on the adulthood depending on the individual density and bottom firmness.

|File:Plicatostylidae_anatomy_cropped_Lithioperna.jpg]]

Lithiotis

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  • L. problematica
  • L. spp.

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  • Altipiano d'Asagio
  • Vaio del Paradiso
  • Bellori
  • Vaio dell'Anguilla
  • Campodalbero
  • Pasubio
  • Albaredo
  • Giazzera
  • Valgola
  • Valbona
  • Rotzo
  • Mezzaselv

|Isolated & Accumulated shells

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An oyster, member of Plicatostylidae. It is the major Bivalve identified on the formation, and the genus that gives the name to the "Lithiotis fauna". Its accumulation have had different denominations on literature, such as banks, bioherms, biostromes, bivalve reefs or bivalve mounds.

|File:Plicatostylidae anatomy cropped Lithiotis.jpg]]

Lucina

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  • L spp.

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  • Val d'Assa
  • Cornacalda

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Lucinidae.

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Modiolus

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  • M. tirolensis
  • M. cf. hillana
  • M. cuneataeformis
  • M. alataeformis
  • M. schaurothi
  • M. tirolensis

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  • Rotzo
  • Val d'Assa
  • Val Ghelpa

|Isolated Shells

|A mussel, member of the family Mytilidae.

|File:Modiolus philippinarum 01.jpg

Mytiloperna

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  • M. mirabilis
  • M. bittneri
  • M. lepsii
  • M. transalpinus
  • M. cf. pernoides
  • M. spp.

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  • Vaio del Paradiso
  • Bellori
  • Vaio dell'Anguilla
  • Val d'Assa
  • Sega di Noriglio
  • Cornacalda
  • Mandrielle
  • Monte Gaza
  • Ciago bei Verzano
  • Campodalbero
  • Pasubio
  • Albaredo
  • Giazzera
  • Valgola
  • Valbona
  • Rotzo
  • Mezzaselv
  • Monte Gaza
  • Verzano

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Isolated Shells

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An oyster, member of the family Malleidae.

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Opisoma

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  • O. excavatum
  • O. menchikoffi

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  • Vaio del Paradiso
  • Bellori
  • Vaio dell'Anguilla
  • Campodalbero
  • Pasubio
  • Albaredo
  • Giazzera
  • Valgola
  • Valbona
  • Rotzo
  • Mezzaselv

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Isolated Shells

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A clam, member of Astartidae. Is considered a genus that evolved from shallow burrowing ancestors, becoming a secondarily semi-infaunal edgewise recliner adapted to photosymbiosis.

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Pachygervillia{{cite journal |last1=Posenato |first1=R. |last2=Crippa |first2=G. |title=An insight into the systematics of Plicatostylidae (Bivalvia), with a description of Pachygervillia anguillaensis n. gen. n. sp. from the Lithiotis Facies (Lower Jurassic) of Italy |journal=Riv. It. Paleontol. Strat. |date=2023 |volume=129 |issue=3 |pages=551–572 |url=https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/download/20273/18674 |access-date=13 November 2023}}

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  • P. anguillaensis
  • P. taramellii

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  • Vaio dell’Anguilla
  • Vajo del Paradiso
  • Val di Sella
  • Viote section

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Isolated Shells

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An oyster, member of Plicatostylidae.

|File:Plicatostylidae_anatomy_cropped_Pachygervillia.jpg]]

Pachyrisma

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  • P. (Pachymegalodon) chamaeformis
  • P. vaceki
  • P. trigonalis
  • P. (Durga) crassa
  • P. (Durga) nicolisi
  • P. ssp.

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  • Bellori
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Nosellari
  • Chiesa
  • Carbonare
  • Osteria alla Stanga
  • Between Chiesa S.Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo
  • Cimoncello di Toraro
  • Campomolon
  • Folgaria
  • Cornacalda

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Isolated Shells

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A clam, member of Megalodontidae.

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Pecten

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  • P. norigliensis
  • P. textoriformis
  • P. clathrataeformis
  • P. lens
  • P. cf. norigliensis
  • P. cf. spatulatus

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  • Sega di Noriglio
  • Cornacalda
  • Rotzo
  • Mte. Erio

|Isolated Shells

|A scallop, member of the family Pectinidae.

|File:Pecten maximus 04.jpg

Pholadomya

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  • P. athesiana
  • P. norigliensis

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  • Vajo dell'Anguilla
  • Sega di Noriglio
  • Cimoncello di Toraro
  • Campomolon
  • Serrada

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Pholadomyidae.

|File:Pholadomya lariana - retico azzarola lc.jpg

Pinna

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  • P. sepiaeformis
  • P. cuneataeformis
  • P. sp.

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  • Rotzo
  • Serrada
  • Roveredo

|Isolated Shells

|An oyster, member of Pinnidae.

|File:Pinna nobilis 001.jpg

Placunopsis

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  • P. italica
  • P. ghelpensis

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  • Val Ghelpa

|Isolated Shells

|A scallop, member of the family Anomiidae.

|

Plicatula

|

  • P. rotzoana

|

  • Rotzo

|Isolated Shells

|An oyster, member of Plicatulidae.

|File:Plicatula angolensis (MNHN-IM-2000-33717) 002.jpeg

Pleuromya

|

  • P. elegans
  • P. gibbosiformis
  • P. jurassiformis
  • P. cf. elongata

|

  • Sega di Noriglio
  • Cornacalda
  • Rotzo
  • Serrada

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Pleuromyidae.

|

Protodiceras

|

  • P. pumilum
  • P. spp.

|

  • Vajo dell'Anguilla
  • Cimoncello di Toraro
  • Campomolon

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Megalodontidae.

|

Pseudopachymytilus

|

  • P. mirabilis
  • P. spp.

|

  • Vaio del Paradiso
  • Bellori
  • Vaio dell'Anguilla
  • Campodalbero
  • Pasubio
  • Albaredo
  • Giazzera
  • Valgola
  • Valbona
  • Rotzo
  • Mezzaselv

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Isolated Shells

|

A clam, incertae sedis inside Pterioida. On the Rotzo formation this byssate bivalve indicates a shallow subtidal or intertidal environment.

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Pteria

|

  • P. volanensis

|

  • Vajo dell'Anguilla
  • Cimoncello di Toraro
  • Campomolon

|Isolated Shells

|An oyster, member of Pteriidae.

|File:Pteria hirundo 01.jpg

Tellina

|

  • T?. cornacaldensis

|

  • Cornacalda

|Isolated Shells

|A clam, member of Tellinidae.

|File:Angulus fabula.jpg

Unicardium

|

  • U. abbreviatiforme
  • U. zonariaeforme

|

  • Rotzo

|Isolated Shells

|An oyster, member of Unicardiidae.

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=Ammonoidea=

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Charmasseiceras

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  • C. sp.

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Serrada (Folgaria, Trento)

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Shells

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An ammonite of the family Schlotheimiidae. A very rare genus on the layers of the formation, being found only a few specimens.

|

Fuciniceras{{cite journal |last1=Haas |first1=O. |title=Die Fauna des mittleren Lias von Ballino im Sudtirol |journal=Beitr. Paldont. Geol. Osterr |date=1913 |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=1–161 |url=https://docplayer.org/78259716-Die-fauna-des-mittleren-lias-von-ballino-in-suedtirol.html |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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  • F. suejense
  • F. portisi

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|

Shells

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An Ammonite of the Family Hildoceratidae

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File:Fuciniceras portisi.jpg

Juraphyllites{{cite journal |last1=Mietto |first1=P. |title=Ammoniti nella Piattaforma liassica Veneta |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |date=1985 |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=3–14 |url=https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/13316/12461 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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  • J. libertus

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Contrada Ronchi (Recoaro Terme, Vicenza)

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Shells

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Type member of the family Juraphyllitidae. It is the most abundant Ammonite found on the Rotzo Formation

|

File:Philloceratina.jpg

Protogrammoceras{{cite journal |last1=Sarti |first1=C. |last2=Ferrari |first2=G. |date=1999 |title=The first record of an in situ ammonite from the upper part of the Calcari Grigi di Noriglio Formation of the Monte Baldo (Trentino, Northern Italy). |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282162566 |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=213 |issue=3 |pages=313–334 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/213/1999/313 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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  • P. gr. celebratum-italicum

|

  • Monte Baldo

|Shells

|An Ammonite of the family Hildoceratidae.

|

=Gastropoda=

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Anticonulus

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  • A. acutus

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Certosa di Vedana

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (Top Snail) of the Family Trochidae.

|

Aptyxiella

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  • A. norigliensis
  • A. spp.

|

  • Bellori
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Nosellari
  • Sega di Noriglio
  • Chiesa
  • Carbonare
  • Osteria alla Stanga
  • Between Chiesa S.Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail), member of Nerinellidae.

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Ataphrus

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  • A. (Ataphrus) latilabrus
  • A. (Ataphrus) cordevolensis

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Certosa di Vedana

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail), type genus of the Family Ataphridae.

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Austriacopsis

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  • A. austriaca

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Certosa di Vedana

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail) of the Family Fissurellidae.

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Ceritella

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  • C. rotzoana

|Rotzo

|Shells

|A marine gastropod (snail) of the Family Cerithiidae.

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Cerithium

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  • C. rotzoanum

|Rotzo

|Shells

|A marine gastropod (snail) of the Family Cerithiidae.

|File:Cerithium vulgatum 02.JPG

Cylindrites

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  • C. bullatiformis

|Rotzo

|Shells

|A marine gastropod (snail) of the Family Acteonidae.

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Discohelix

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  • D. excavata

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Certosa di Vedana

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail), type genus of the Family Discohelicidae.

|File:Discohelix tunisiensis apical.jpg

Eucyclidae

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Indeterminate

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Certosa di Vedana

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail) of the Family Eucyclidae.

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Eucyclus

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Certosa di Vedana

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail), type genus of the Family Eucyclidae.

|File:Eucyclus capitaneus 01.JPG

Emarginula

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  • Certosa di Vedana
  • Val d'Arsa

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (limpet) of the family Fissurellidae.

|File:Emarginula viridicana (10.3897-afrinvertebr.61.51989) Figure 10.jpg

Globularia

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  • G. sp.

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Tonezza del Cimone

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail) of the family Ampullinidae.

|File:Globularia sigaretina 01.JPG

Guidonia

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  • G. pseudorotula

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Certosa di Vedana

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail) of the family Trochonematidae.

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Natica

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  • N. tridentina
  • N. spp.

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  • Albaredo bei Roveredo
  • Noriglio

|Shells

|A marine gastropod (Moon snail) of the family Naticidae.

|File:Natica arachnoidea 01.JPG

Nerinea

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  • N. desvoidyiformis
  • N. norigliensis

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  • Rotzo
  • Sega di Noriglio

|Shells

|A marine gastropod (snail), member of Nerineidae.

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Neritopsis{{cite journal |last1=Gatto |first1=R. |last2=Monari |first2=S. |title=Pliensbachian gastropods from Venetian Southern Alps (Italy) and their palaeobiogeographical significance. |journal=Palaeontology |date=2010 |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=771–802 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00961.x |bibcode=2010Palgy..53..771G |s2cid=140623279 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00961.x |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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  • N. fabianii
  • N. minulaeformis
  • N. spp.

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  • Rotzo
  • Certosa di Vedana
  • Bellori

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail), type genus of the family Neritopsidae.

|File:Neritopsis richeri.jpg

Patella

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  • P. conoidea
  • P. costata
  • P. (Scurria?) tirolensis

|

  • Noriglio
  • Cornacalda
  • Val d'Arsa

|Shells

|A marine gastropod (limpet) of the family Patellidae.

|File:Patella caerulea 01.JPG

Plectotrochus

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  • P. sp.

|

Certosa di Vedana

|

Shells

|

A marine gastropod (Top snail) of the family Trochidae.

|

Pleurotomaria

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  • P. obesaeformis

|

  • Rotzo

|Shells

|A marine gastropod (snail), member of Pleurotomariidae.

|File:Pleurotomaria expansa 01.JPG

Proacirsa

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|

Certosa di Vedana

|

Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail) of the family Gordenellidae.

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Pseudonerinea

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  • P. terebra

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Tonezza del Cimone

|

Shells

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A marine gastropod (snail) of the family Pseudonerineidae.

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Pseudorhytidopilus

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  • P. detonii

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Certosa di Vedana

|

Shells

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A marine gastropod (limpet) of the family Acmaeidae.

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Rissoina

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  • R. acutaeformis'

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  • Rotzo

|Shells

|A marine gastropod (snail), member of Rissoinidae.

|File:Rissoina rosea 02.jpg

Tretospira{{cite journal |last1=Vorlicek |first1=Lucia |title=Analisi paleontologica di alcuni gasteropodi del Giurassico inferiore del Veneto |journal=Dipartimento di Geoscienze-Universita Padova |date=2022 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=1–22 |url=https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/30184?mode=simple |access-date=13 November 2023}}

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  • T. tridentina
  • T. morrisiiformis

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  • Rotzo
  • Tonezza del Cimone

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Shells

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A marine gastropod (periwinkle) of the family Purpurinidae.

|

Trochus

|

  • T. sinister

|Noriglio

|Shells

|A marine gastropod (Top snail) of the family Trochidae.

|File:Trochus radiatus 01.JPG

Turritella

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  • T. rotzoana
  • T. terebra

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  • Rotzo
  • Sega di Noriglio
  • Val d’Assa

|Shells

|A marine gastropod (snail) of the family Turritellidae.

|File:Turritella communis 01.JPG

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  • A. lumbricalis
  • A. isp.

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |Coste dell’Anglone dinosaur ichnosite

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |Star-shaped impressions

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |An ichnogenus that represents the resting trace resting activity of brittle stars (Ophiuroidea). The recovered from the Rotzo formation are probably from specimens trapped on tidal changes.

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |File:AsteriacitesUtah.jpg

Hypodiadema

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  • H. sp.

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  • Noriglio

|Sclerites

|A Pseudodiadematidae Euechinoidean

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Polydiadema{{cite journal |last1=Borghi |first1=E. |last2=Bottazzi |first2=A. |title=First record of the genus Polydiadema Lambert, 1888 (Echinoidea) in the Jurassic of Italy |journal=Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali. |date=2020 |volume=99 |issue=4 |pages=15–19 |url=https://www.muse.it/it/Editoria-Muse/Studi-Trentini-Scienze-Naturali/Documents/STSN_99_2020/03%20Borghi.pdf |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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  • P. depressum

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  • Monte Roite

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Two specimens (MCV.20/02 and MCV.20/03)

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An Emiratiidae Phymosomatoidan.

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Pseudodiadema

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  • P. roveredanum
  • P. cobellii
  • P. veronense
  • P. spp.

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  • Monte Pombo
  • Sega di Noriglio
  • Albaredo bei Roveredo.

|Multiple specimens

|A Pseudodiadematidae Euechinoidean

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Cypris

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  • C. rotzoana

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  • Rotzo
  • Sega di Noriglio

|Valves

|An Ostracodan of the family Cyprididae

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Eryma

|

  • E. (Phlyctisoma) cf.sinemurianum

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Valbona Area.

|

Slightly deformed Exuvia

|

An Erymid Decapodan Crustacean. With a rostrum about 1.3 cm long and the cephalic part of carapace about 2.5 cm the specimen probably reached a total length between 9–10 cm, being one of the largest specimens belonging to this species. Frequent association with Thalassinoides burrows.

|File:Eryma mandelslohi (Krebs) - Oberer Brauner Jura - Bissingen unter Teck.jpg

Klieana

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  • K. sp.

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Tonezza del Cimone.

|

Valves

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An Ostracodan of the family Cytherideidae. The earliest record of the genus.

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Limnocythere

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  • L. sp.

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Tonezza del Cimone.

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Valves

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An Ostracodan of the family Limnocytherinae. High probability to be a new species of Limnocythere.

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Ophiomorpha

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  • O. irregulaire
  • cf. O. nodosa
  • O. isp. A
  • O. ? isp. B

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Campomolon, Valbona

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Burrowing and track Ichnofossils

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Burrows of Decapodans

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |File:Ophiomorpha.jpg

Phraterfabanella{{cite journal |last1=Boomer |first1=I. |last2=Whatley |first2=R. |last3=Bassi |first3=D. |last4=Fugagnoli |first4=A. |last5=Loriga |first5=C. |title=An Early Jurassic oligohaline ostracod assemblage within the marine carbonate platform sequence of the Venetian Prealps, NE Italy. |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |date=2001 |volume=166 |issue=3–4 |pages=331–344 |doi=10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00216-9 |bibcode=2001PPP...166..331B |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018200002169 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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  • P. tridentinensis

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Tonezza del Cimone.

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Valves

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An Ostracodan of the family Cytherideidae. The assemblage is dominated (>95%) by this taxon. it is likely that the palaeoenvironment was somewhat "stressed", where this genus would adapt better that Other Ostracodans (is related to the modern euryhaline species, Cyprideis torosa).

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=Annelida=

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Schistomeringos{{cite journal |last1=Van Erve |first1=A. W. |title=Lower Jurassic scolecodonts from the vicentinian Alps (northeastern Italy), representing the family Dorvilleidae Chamberlin, 1919 |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |date=1981 |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=225–235 |doi=10.1016/0034-6667(81)90040-3 |bibcode=1981RPaPa..34..225V |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0034666781900403 |access-date=17 April 2023}}

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  • S. expectatus

|

  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Virti and Osteria alla Stanga
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni

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Isolated scolecodonts

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A polychaete of the family Dorvilleidae. Unlike the modern counterparts that live in deeper environments, this species is found linked with shallow marine facies

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File:Schistomeringos rudolphii (YPM IZ 100176).jpeg

Serpula

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  • S. spp.

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  • Noriglio
  • Bellori
  • Castelletto
  • Campodalbero
  • Nosellari
  • Chiesa
  • Carbonare
  • Rovereto

|Isolated or accumulated tubes

|A sessile Annelid of the family Serpulidae.

|File:Ver_de_la_famille_des_Serpulidae_à_identifier.jpg

=Ichnofossils=

In the Western Venetian Prealps a shallow-water, oceanic carbonate platform system, the Trento platform, developed on the Early Jurassic, producing a large succession of massive to well-bedded white Limestones, several {{cvt|100|m|ft}} thick that are part of the Calcari Grigi Group, where the Rotzo Formation is the Upper Member.{{cite journal |last1=Monaco |first1=P. |last2=Giannetti |first2=A. |title=Three-dimensional burrow systems and taphofacies in shallowing-upward parasequences, lower Jurassic carbonate platform (Calcari Grigi, Southern Alps, Italy) |journal=Facies |date=2002 |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=57–82 |doi=10.1007/BF02667706 |bibcode=2002Faci...47...57M |s2cid=129735856 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02667706 |access-date=3 January 2022}} On the local limestone of the Rotzo Formation deep burrowing is a very common type of biogenic activity, as is shown due to the presence of a large characteristic network of burrows which reach down to the lagoonal, marly-clayey assigned strata, suggesting intense bioturbation by large unknown organisms, perhaps giant decapod crustaceans (Probably members of the family Erymidae), although, the burrows found are not closely related to the ones of Shrimps or other decapods, but resemble those of Stomatopoda and Malacostraca. Other includes abandoned burrows, vertical biogenic action and infilling on the sea substrate.

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Chomatichnus

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  • C. wegberensis

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Campomolon, Valbona

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Vertical burrows with preserved entrances

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Chondrites

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  • C. isp.

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Campomolon, Valbona

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Burrowing and track Ichnofossils

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| style="background:#FEF6E4;" |File:Chondrites_trace_fossil_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6982077.jpg

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Glossifungites

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  • G. isp.

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Campomolon, Valbona

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Infilled abandoned burrows by coarse-grained skeletal debris

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Skolithos

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  • S. isp.

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Campomolon, Valbona

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Infilled abandoned burrows by coarse-grained skeletal debris

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|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |File:Skolithos_icnofosil_ilustracion.jpg along the possible makers]].

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Thalassinoides{{cite journal |last1=Monaco|first1=P. |title=Decapod burrows (Thalassinoides, Ophiomorpha) and crustacean remains in the Calcari Grigi, lower Jurassic, Trento platform (Italy). |journal=1st Workshop on Mesozoic and Tertiary decapod crustaceans, Studi e Ricerche, Associazione Amici del Museo Civico "G.Zannato" Montecchio Maggiore (Vicenza), October 6–8, 2000 |date=2000 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=55–57 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233832779 |access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Garassino |first1=A. |last2=Monaco |first2=M. |title=Burrows and body fossil of decapod custaceans i the Calcari Grigi, Lower Jurassic, Treno Platform (Italy) |journal=Geobios |date=2000 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=291–301}}{{cite journal |last1=Monaco |first1=P. |last2=Garassino |first2=A. |title=Burrowing and carapace remains of crustacean decapods in the Calcari Grigi, Early Jurassic, Trento platform |journal=Geobios |date=2001 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=291–301 |doi=10.1016/S0016-6995(01)80077-2 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699501800772 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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  • T. suevicus
  • T.? isp. B

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Campomolon, Valbona

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Burrowing and track Ichnofossils

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|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |File:Ichnofossil_Thalassinoides.jpg specimens]].

Vertebrata

=Chondrichthyes=

Episodic surficial bioturbation is common on the Rotzo Formation, due to invertebrates or fishes which alter intensely but rapidly the substrate for many cm in depth. It this case the Bioturbation is assigned to mollusc predatory Chondrichthyes, such as Hybodontidae and Heterodontidae. It also resemble traces left by present day flat angel sharks or Squatinidae and Guitarfish such as Rhinobatos.

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Chimaeriformes

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Indeterminate

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  • Campiluzzi Tunnel
  • Monte Pasubio

|Isolated Teeth & Scales

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Uncertain Holocephalii remains

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Hybodontiformes

|Indeterminate

|

  • Campiluzzi Tunnel
  • Monte Pasubio

|Isolated Teeth & Scales

|Incertade Sedis

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Hybodus{{cite journal |last1=Franceschi |first1=Fabio |last2=Bernardi |first2=Massimo |title=Vertebrate remains from the Rotzo Formation (Lower Jurassic, Trento Platform, Italy): preliminary note. |journal=Fossilia - Reports in Palaeontology |date=2020 |volume=78 |issue=6 |pages=25–27 |url=http://files.spazioweb.it/85/29/85293f4f-d1db-4afd-9b52-bf801839f6b9.pdf |access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Franceschi |first1=F. |last2=Bernardi |first2=M. |title=The higher ecological tiers of the Rotzo Formation: first clues on a forgotten vertebrate fauna |journal=_PaleoDays 2021 - XXI Convegno della Società Paleontologica Italiana |date=2021 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=6–7 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352510165 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

|H. sp.

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  • Campiluzzi Tunnel
  • Monte Pasubio

|

  • Isolated Teeth & Scales
  • First dorsal fin spine

|

A member of the family Hybodontidae.

|File:Hybodus hauffianus.png

Strophodus

|S. sp.

|

  • Campiluzzi Tunnel
  • Monte Pasubio

|Isolated Teeth & Scales

|A member of the family Acrodontidae.

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=Actinopterygii=

Unidentified fish scales are known from the formation.{{cite journal |last1=Petti |first1=F. M. |last2=Bernardi |first2=M. |last3=Todesco |first3=R. |last4=Avanzini |first4=M. |title=Dinosaur footprints as ultimate evidence for a terrestrial environment in the late Sinemurian trento carbonate platform |journal=PALAIOS |date=2011 |volume=26 |issue=10 |pages=601–606 |doi=10.2110/palo.2011.p11-003r |bibcode=2011Palai..26..601P |s2cid=128845481 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261965036 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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! Stratigraphic position

! Material

! Notes

! Images

Ginglymodi

|

Indeterminate

|

  • Campiluzzi Tunnel
  • Monte Pasubio

|Isolated Teeth & Scales

|

Remains of Ginglymodi bony fishes, previously referred to Semionotiformes and/or the genus Lepidotes

| rowspan="2" |File:Lepidotes 1904.png fish]]

Lepisosteiformes

|Indeterminate

|

  • Campiluzzi Tunnel
  • Monte Pasubio

|Isolated Teeth & Scales

|Remains of Ginglymodi bony fishes, previously referred to Semionotiformes and/or the genus Lepidotes

Pachycormiformes

|

Indeterminate

|

  • Campiluzzi Tunnel
  • Monte Pasubio

|Isolated Teeth & Scales

|

Actinopterygii fishes, the oldest record of the family

|File:Pachycormus1.jpg Fish]]

Pholidophoriformes{{cite journal |last1=Avanzini |first1=M. |date=1998 |title=Resti di vertebrati dal Giurassico inferiore della piattafor-ma di Trento (Italia settentrionale) Nota prelimiare |journal=Studi Trentini diScienze Naturali. Acta Geologica |volume=73 |issue=7 |pages=75–80}}

|

Indeterminate

|

  • Campiluzzi Tunnel
  • Monte Pasubio

|

  • Complete Specimen
  • Isolated Teeth & Scales

|

Teleostei fishes, with genera know to form large Fish schools.

|

Pholidophorus?

|

  • P.? beggiatianus

|Sega di Noriglio

|

  • Partial specimen

|A Bony fish of the family Pholidophoridae inside Pholidophoriformes

|File:Pholidophorus bechei.JPG

Pycnodontiformes

|

Indeterminate

|

  • Campiluzzi Tunnel
  • Monte Pasubio
  • Sega di Noriglio

|Isolated Teeth & Scales

|

Teleostei Fishes, related to lagoonar environments, previously referred to the genus Pycnodus

|File:Gyrodus hexagonus.png

=Crocodyliformes=

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Genus

! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

! Images

Teleosauridae?

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Indeterminate

|

Monte Pasubio

|

Isolated Teeth{{cite journal |last1=Avanzini |first1=M. |title=Resti di rettili continentali dal Giurassico inferiore della piattaforma di Trento (Italia settentrionale)|journal=Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali - Acta Geologica |date=1998 |volume=73 |issue=4 |pages=75–80}}

|

A Thalattosuchian Mesoeucrocodylian. It was cited the presence of fragmentary and poorly preserved remains of “Teleosauridae?”. The fossils were found on lagoonal deposits.

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File:Steneosaurus NT small.jpg]]

= Dinosaurs =

On the Inter-supratidal levels show that on the Rotzo Formation the Tracksites were rarely hit by Storm Waves.{{cite journal |last1=Guidorroghi |first1=R. |title=Lower Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) dinosaur track megasites, southern Alps, Northern Italy |journal=The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition |date=2006 |volume=37 |issue=8 |page=207}} Bella Lastra Tracksite recovers this environment, where the shales present (Where Fish & Crocodrylomorph Remains where found) are filled with plant roots, pollen grains, spores, freshwater ostracodes and the bivalve Eomiodon. This was deposited mostly on a Lagoonar environment with abundant shed vegetation. The main local Track record recovers specially Theropoda and Sauropoda, where the Sauropods are the most abundant tracks present (70%), moving the Otozum-like Sauropodomorphs of lower levels, with the climate changing from arid to humid. The Coste dell’Anglone ichnosite is considered as derived from semi-arid tidal flat deposits, due to the abundance of Cheirolepidiaceae Pollen.{{cite journal |last1=Petti |first1=F. M. |last2=Bernardi |first2=M. |last3=Ferretti |first3=P. |last4=Tomasoni |first4=R. |last5=Avanzini |first5=M. |title=Dinosaur tracks in a marginal marine environment: the Coste dell'Anglone ichnosite (Early Jurassic, Trento Platform, NE Italy). |journal=Italian Journal of Geosciences |date=2011 |volume=130 |issue=1 |pages=27–41 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235891320 |access-date=3 January 2022}} As the Pliensbachian Trento Platform is considered to be formed by a channelized barrier formed by sand, with reiterate tide emersions. The dinosaurs living here probably trampled on the subtidal flats looking for fishes trapped on tidal-derived ponds.

{{paleobiota-key-compact}}

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Genus

! Species

! Location

! Member

! Material

! Notes

! Images

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Anchisauripus

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  • A. isp. A

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  • Coste dell'Anglone tracksite

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Tovel Member

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Footprints

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Theropod tracks, type member of the ichnofamily Anchisauripodidae, incertae sedis inside Neotheropoda. All tracks were probably produced by individuals with the same functional anatomy of the hind foot.

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |File:Anchisauripus tuberosus.jpg

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Kayentapus{{cite journal |last1=Avanzini |first1=M. |last2=Petti |first2=F. M. |title=Updating the dinosaur tracksites from the Lower Jurassic Calcari Grigi Group (Southern Alps, northern Italy). |journal=Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica |year=2008 |volume=83 |issue=8 |pages=289–301 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235891375 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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  • K. isp. A
  • K. isp. B

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  • Coste dell'Anglone tracksite
  • Bella Lasta tracksite
  • Stol dei Campiluzzi tracksite

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Tovel Member

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Footprints

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Theropod tracks, member of the ichnofamily Eubrontidae, incertae sedis inside Neotheropoda. The tracks measure 30 cm long and have a distinctive robust digit III. The Coste dell´Anglone tracksite had a pes with the metatarsal III elongated, as found on Dilophosaurus.

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |File:Kayentapus isp. - MUSE.jpg

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Moyenisauropus{{cite journal |last1=Avanzini |first1=M. |last2=Leonardi |first2=G. |last3=Tomasoni |first3=R. |last4=Campolongo |first4=M. |title=Enigmatic dinosaur trackways from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of the Sarca Valley, northeast Italy |journal=Ichnos |date=2001 |volume=8 |issue=3–4 |pages=235–242 |doi=10.1080/10420940109380190 |bibcode=2001Ichno...8..235A |s2cid=128584482 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248938038 |access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Petti |first1=F.M. |last2=Avanzini |first2=M. |last3=Antonelli |first3=M |last4=Bernardi |first4=M. |last5=Leonardi |first5=G. |last6=Manni |first6=R. |last7=Mietto |first7=P. |last8=Pignatti |first8=J. |last9=Piubelli |first9=D. |last10=Sacco |first10=E. |last11=Wagensommer |first11=A. |title=Jurassic tetrapod tracks from Italy: a training ground for generations of researchers |journal=Tetrapod Ichnology in Italy: The State of the Art. Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences |date=2020 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=137–165 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342877191 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

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M. isp.

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  • Marocche di Dro tracksite

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Tovel Member

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Footprints

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Thyreophoran tracks, type member of the ichnofamily Moyenisauropodidae, incertae sedis inside Neornithischia. The tracks adscribed share some morphological affinity with those referred to the Ankylosauridae, such as the ichnogenera Metatetrapodus and Tetrapodosaurus, and probably belonged to medium-sized Scelidosaurs or other kind of Thyreophorans.

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Otozoum?

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  • O.? isp.

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  • Marocche di Dro tracksite

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Tovel Member

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Footprints

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Sauropodomorph tracks, member of the ichnofamily Otozoidae, incertae sedis inside Sauropodomorpha. It wears morphological and morphometrical appearance that suggests relationships with a "prosauropod" trackmaker.

|style="background:#FEF6E4;" |File:Otozoum tracks cropped.jpg

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Parabrontopodus{{cite journal |last1=Franceschi |first1=M. |last2=Martinelli |first2=M. |last3=Gislimberti |first3=L. |last4=Rizzi |first4=A. |last5=Massironi |first5=M. |title=Integration of 3D modeling, aerial LiDAR and photogrammetry to study a synsedimentary structure in the Early Jurassic Calcari Grigi (Southern Alps, Italy). |journal=European Journal of Remote Sensing |date=2015 |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=527–539 |doi=10.5721/EuJRS20154830 |s2cid=134429593 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015EuJRS..48..527F }}

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  • P. isp. A
  • P. isp. B

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  • Marocche di Dro tracksite
  • Bella Lasta tracksite

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Tovel Member

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Footprints

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Sauropod tracks, type member of the ichnofamily Parabrontopodidae, incertae sedis inside Sauropodomorpha. The larger tracks comprise elliptic pes (L=70 cm; W=50 cm) and subcirluar manus prints (L=33 cm; W=30 cm), what are among the largest known dinosaur tracks of the lower jurassic.

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Flora

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| image1 = Rhizophora mangle (red mangroves) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 6 (15598753449).jpg

| image2 = Going into a cypress swamp - panoramio.jpg

| footer = Rotzo Formation nearby land hosted Bahamian-type biomes (San Salvador Island Mangroves in the picture) with nearby "Taxodium swamp"-like coniferous associations dominated by the Pagiophyllum producer

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The Rotzo Formation was deposited on a Lagoon on the emerged Trento Platform, leading to a well preserved fossil flora record, collected and studied since the 19th century.{{cite journal |last1=Neri |first1=M. |last2=Papazzoni |first2=C.A. |last3=Kustatscher |first3=E. |last4=Roghi |first4=G. |title=Paleoenvironmental data from the amber-bearing levels of the Rotzo formation (Pliensbachian, Lower Jurassic), Monti Lessini (Verona, Italy). |journal=In XV Edizione delle "Giornate di Paleontologia", PaleoDays |date=2015 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=78–79 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300064257 |access-date=3 January 2022}} The great level of floral fossilization has even allow to discovery fossil amber on the Bellori section. This amber has allowed to determine that the environment was a shallow tropical lagoon, only a few metres deep, closed seawards by oolitic shoals and bars. This levels are dominated by a high abundance of Classopollis sp. (Cheirolepidiaceae), associated with dry and wet climates in coastal areas. The abundance of this group of conifers is also proven by the high presence of cuticles of Pagiophyllum cf. rotzoanum.{{cite journal |last1=Neri |first1=M. |last2=Kustatscher |first2=E. |last3=Roghi |first3=G. |last4=Papazzoni |first4=C.A. |title=Paleobotanical assemblage from the Lower Jurassic amber bearing levels from the Rotzo Formation, Monti Lessini (Venetian Prealps, Northern Italy) |journal=In the Micropaleontological Society, 5th Silicofossil and Palynology Joint Meeting |date=2016 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=33}} Beyond this genera, spores are highly diversified, including from Sphenophyta, Selaginellales to Ferns, with abundance (more than 50%) of trilete spores (Deltoidospora), what suggest a good freshwater availability corresponding to a wet climate, proven also by the presence of aquatic miospores of algae such as Botryococcus and Pseudoschizaea. The climate was arid on some seasons with monsoon months. The abundance of marine fauna on this sediments, including fragments of corals, bryozoans, bivalves, echinoids, and foraminifera, suggest transport from brackish lagoons and marshes, probably occurred during storm events. Overall data points to a marshy and/or submerged paleoenvironment, comparable to the present-day Taxodium swamp or cypress swamp and a Bahamian-type marine environment in a rather wet monsoonal climate as in the modern southeastern Asia. The abundant presence of glossy black charcoal little fragments point to wildfires being a consistent local landscape feature.

=Amber=

The Rotzo Formation records one of the few Early Jurassic assamblages with Amber in the world, the nicknamed "Bellori amber" found near the village of the same name.{{cite journal |last1=Neri |first1=M. |last2=Roghi |first2=G. |last3=Ragazzi |first3=E. |last4=Papazzoni |first4=C. A. |title=First record of Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) amber and associated palynoflora from the Monti Lessini (northern Italy). |journal=Geobios |date=2017 |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=49–63 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2016.10.001 |bibcode=2017Geobi..50...49N |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699516301231 |access-date=3 January 2022}} Made mostly of small droplets of less than 1 mm with exceptionally preserved morphology its likely the amber producing plants were likely not stressed or affected by disease. Due to the small size animal inclusion have not been found. However various plant materials, identified “mummified wood” and wood tissue are known. Additionally large amounts of Circumpolles Cheirolepidiaceous pollen, and occasional freshwater algae Pseudoschizaea remains are included. Several cuticle fragments are attributed to the araucariaceous or Hirmeriellaceae genus Pagiophyllum. Those lived on a coastal and wet palaeoenvironment similar to the present-day Taxodium swamps with monsoonal seasons as in the modern southern Asia.

=Palynology=

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! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

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Accincitisporites{{cite journal |last1=Van Erve |first1=A.W. |title=Palynological investigation in the Lower Jurassic of the Vicentinian Alps (Northeastern Italy) |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |year=1977 |volume=23 |issue=6 |pages=1–117 |doi=10.1016/0034-6667(77)90004-5 |bibcode=1977RPaPa..23....1V |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0034666777900045 |access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Neri |first1=M. |last2=Kustatscher |first2=E. |last3=Roghi |first3=G. |title=Megaspores from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) Rotzo Formation (Monti Lessini, northern Italy) and their paleoenvironmental implications |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |date=2018 |volume=98 |issue=1 |pages=102–118 |doi=10.1007/s12549-017-0314-z |s2cid=133666705 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323279856 |access-date=3 January 2022|doi-access=free |bibcode=2018PdPe...98...97N }}

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  • A. sp.

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

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Spores

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Incertae sedis; affinities with the Pteridophyta

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Alisporites

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  • A. sp.

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

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Spores

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Affinities with Voltzia (Willsiostrobus) and Corystospermales

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Aratrisporites

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  • A. sp

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

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Spores

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Affinities with Lycophytes, in situ in Cyclostrobus, Lycostrobus and Annalepis zeiller.

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Auritulinasporites

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  • A. scanicus

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

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Spores

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Incertae sedis; affinities with the Pteridophyta

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Baculatisporites

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  • B. comaumensis
  • B. sp

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

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Spores

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Affinities with the family Osmundaceae in the Polypodiopsida.

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Calamospora

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  • C. sp

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

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Spores

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Affinities with the Calamitaceae in the Equisetales.

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Camarozonosporites

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  • C. cf. heskemensis

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

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Spores

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Affinities with the family Lycopodiaceae in the Lycopodiopsida.

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Cabochonicus

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  • cf. C. carbunculus

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

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Spores

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Affinities with Selaginellaceae

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Chasmatosporites

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  • C. sp

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

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Spores

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Affinities with the family Zamiaceae in the Cycadales. It is among the most abundant flora recovered on the upper section of the coeval Rya Formation, and was found to be similar to the pollen of the extant Encephalartos laevifolius.{{citation |last=Guy-Ohlson |first=D. |year=1988 |title=The use of dispersed palynomorphs referable to the form genus Chasmatosporites (Nilsson) Pocock and Jansonius, in Jurassic biostratigraphy|journal=Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia|volume=3 |issue=1–2 |pages=5–13|url=http://repoarchivos.segemar.gob.ar/Mounted/KOHA%20-%20DSPACE%20DISCK2/D-Space%20-%20Repositorio%20Institucional%20SEGEMAR/Congresos%20y%20Jornadas-%20VER%20CLASIFICACI%C3%93N%20segun%20entidades/Congresos%20de%20Palentolog%C3%ADa%20-%20Argentino%20y%20Latinoamericano/3035/3035.pdf |access-date=9 April 2021}}

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Classopollis

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  • C. sp
  • C. classoides
  • C. meyeriana
  • C. torosus

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

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Pollen

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Affinities with the Hirmeriellaceae in the Pinopsida.

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Concavisporites

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  • C. crassexinius
  • C. sp. A
  • C. sp. B
  • C. sp. C

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

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Spores

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Incertae sedis; affinities with the Pteridophyta

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Cycadopites

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  • C. sp.

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

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Pollen

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Affinities with the family Cycadaceae and Bennettitaceae.

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Deltoidospora

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  • D. minor
  • D. toralis
  • D. sp.

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

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Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Incertae sedis; affinities with the Pteridophyta

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Densosporites

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  • D. fissus
  • D. sp.

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

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Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the Selaginellaceae in the Lycopsida.

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Eucommiidites

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  • E. troedssoni

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Bellori, Ponte Basaginocchi, Vajo dell’Anguilla

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Pollen

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Type pollen of the Erdtmanithecales, related to the Gnetales.

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Foveosporites

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  • F. visscheri
  • F. sp.

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  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Selaginellaceae

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Granuloperculatipollis

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • G. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Pollen

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the Hirmeriellaceae in the Pinopsida.

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Horstisporites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • H. harrisii

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the Selaginellaceae in the Lycopsida.

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Hughesisporites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • cf. H. orlowskae

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the Selaginellaceae in the Lycopsida.

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Ischyosporites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • I. variegatus
  • I. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Incertae sedis; affinities with the Pteridophyta

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Leptolepidites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • L. cf. major
  • L. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the family Lycopodiaceae in the Lycopodiopsida.

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Limbosporites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • L. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the family Lycopodiaceae in the Lycopodiopsida.

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Lycopodiacidites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • L. cerebriformis
  • L. regulatus
  • L. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the Ophioglossaceae in the Filicales.

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Lycopodiumsporites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • L. semimuris
  • L. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • BetweenChiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the family Lycopodiaceae in the Lycopodiopsida

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Monosulcites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • M. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Pollen

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the family Karkeniaceae and Ginkgoaceae in the Ginkgoales.

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Perinopollenites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • P. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Pollen

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the family Cupressaceae in the Pinopsida.

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Pinuspollenites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • P. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Pollen

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the family Pinaceae in the Pinopsida.

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Retitriletes

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • R. semimuris

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • BetweenChiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the family Lycopodiaceae in the Lycopodiopsida

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Retusotriletes

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • R. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • BetweenChiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the family Lycopodiaceae in the Lycopodiopsida

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Skarbysporites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • S. puntii
  • S. elsendoornii
  • S. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • BetweenChiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Incertae sedis; affinities with the Pteridophyta

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Schizosporis

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • S. cf. reticulatus
  • S. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • BetweenChiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Cysts

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Chlorophyta

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spheripollenites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • S. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Pollen

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the Hirmeriellaceae in the Pinopsida

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Tigrisporites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • T. jonkeri
  • T. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • BetweenChiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Incertae sedis; affinities with the Pteridophyta

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Todisporites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • T. minor
  • T. cinctus
  • T. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • BetweenChiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with the family Osmundaceae in the Polypodiopsida.

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Trachysporites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • T. fuscus

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • BetweenChiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Incertae sedis; affinities with the Pteridophyta

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Trileites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • cf. T. murrayi

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Selaginellaceae

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Verrutriletes

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • cf.V. compostipunctatus

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Spores

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Incertae sedis; affinities with the Pteridophyta

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Vitreisporites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • V. pallidus

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Pollen

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

From the family Caytoniaceae in the Caytoniales.

= Algae =

class="wikitable sortable"
Genus

! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

! Images

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Palaeodasycladus

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • P. fragilis
  • P. gracilis
  • P. mediterraneus
  • P. spp.

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Coste dell'Anglone tracksite
  • Marocche di Dro tracksite
  • Bellori
  • Garzon di Scotto
  • Foza section
  • Chizzola

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Calcified Thalli

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

A green alga of the family Dasycladaceae. A reefal algae usually found in carbonate settings along all the Mediterranean

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |File:Palaeodasycladus_mediterraneus_as_Palaeocladus_mediterraneus_in_Pia_1920.JPG

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Sestrosphaera{{Cite journal |last1=Romano |first1=Roberta |last2=Barattolo |first2=Filippo |date=2009 |title=Note on Sestrosphaera liasina (Pia, 1920) from the Lowermost Jurassic of Malga Mandrielle (type-locality, Southern Alps, Italy) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2008.07.005 |journal=Geobios |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=101–115 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2008.07.005 |bibcode=2009Geobi..42..101R |issn=0016-6995}}

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • S. liasina

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Malga Mandrielle
  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Calcified Thalli

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A green alga of the family Triploporellaceae.

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Solenopora

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • S. cf. liasina

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Calcified Thalli

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A red alga of the family Solenoporaceae

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |File:Solenoporaceae_-_Solenopora.JPG

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Thaumatoporella

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • T. parvovesiculifera

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Bellori
  • Ponte Basaginocchi
  • Vajo dell’Anguilla
  • Between Pedescala and Castelletto
  • Between Ferrazza and Campodalbero
  • Dazio
  • Between Nosellari and Dazio
  • Between Carbonare and Nosellari
  • Buse and
  • Between Virti and Osteria
  • Between Chiesa S. Martino and Zaffoni
  • Between Boccaldo and Pozza
  • Rovereto
  • Leno di Terragnolo

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Calcified Thalli

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |A green alga of the Thaumatoporellales group. The dominant alga locally

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

=Equisetales=

class="wikitable sortable"
Genus

! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

! Images

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Equisetites{{cite journal |last1=De Zigno |first1=A. |title=Flora fossilis formationis Oolithicae |journal=Tipografia del Seminario di Padova |year=1856–1868 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1–426 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/122892#page/1/mode/1up |access-date=3 January 2022}}

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • E. bunburyanus
  • E. veronensis
  • E. minor

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Roverè di Velo
  • Campo Fontana
  • Val d´Assa
  • Pernigotti

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Stems

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Equisetaceae. Related to humid environments, the stems of local Equisetopsids show a rather large grown cycle, like the Bamboo on the modern Southern Asia, implicating tall Plants influenced by a Tropical Climate.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Phyllotheca

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • P. brongniartiana
  • P. equisetiformis

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Roverè di Velo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Leaf Whorl

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Phyllothecaceae inside Equisetales

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

File:Phyllotheca brongniartiana.jpg

=Pteridophytes=

class="wikitable sortable"
Genus

! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

! Images

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Coniopteris{{Cite journal |last1=Scanu |first1=G. G. |last2=Kustatscher |first2=E. |last3=Pittau |first3=P. |date=2012 |title=The Jurassic plant fossils of the Lovisato Collection: preliminary notes |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267024458 |journal=Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=71–84}}

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • C. hymenophylloides

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Rotzo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Polypodiales inside Polypodiidae.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Danaeites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • D. heeri
  • D. brongniartiana

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Rotzo
  • Val d´Assa
  • Bienterle
  • Selva di Progno

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Marattiales inside Marattiopsida.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Dictyophyllum

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • D. sp.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Roverè di Velo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Dipteridaceae inside Gleicheniales.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Gleichenites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • G. elegans

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Roverè di Velo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Gleicheniaceae inside Polypodiopsida

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Hymenophyllites

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • H. leckenbyi

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Roverè di Velo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with either Dicksoniaceae or Polypodiidae inside Polypodiopsida. Similar to the genus Coniopteris.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Laccopteris

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • L. rotzana

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Rotzo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Matoniaceae inside Gleicheniales.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Marzaria

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • M. paroliniana

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Roverè di Velo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Matoniaceae inside Gleicheniales.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

File:Marzaria paroliniana.jpg

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Matonidium

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • M. rotzoana

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Roverè di Velo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Matoniaceae inside Gleicheniales.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Phlebopteris

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • P. polypodioides

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Val d´Assa

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Matoniaceae inside Gleicheniales.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Protorhipis

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • P. asarifolia

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Roverè di Velo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Dipteridaceae inside Gleicheniales. A rather lower Fern, with great resemblance with the modern genus Dipteris.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

=Corystospermales=

class="wikitable sortable"
Genus

! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

! Images

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Cycadopteris{{cite journal |last1=Bartiromo |first1=A. |last2=Barone Lumaga |first2=M.R. |title=Taxonomical revision of the Collection of Jurassic plants from Roverè di Velo (Veneto, northern Italy) stored in the Palaeontological Museum of the University of Naples "Federico II". |journal=Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana |date=2009 |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=1–13 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285668531 |access-date=3 January 2022}}

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • C. brauniana
  • C. heerii
  • C. heterophylla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Valle Zuliani
  • Rotzo
  • Roverè di Velo
  • Albaredo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

| style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Corystospermaceae inside Corystospermales. On the Roverè di Velo collection, C. brauniana is the most common Frond found. The Fronds belong to medium to large arboreal Ferns.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

File:Cycadopteris browniana e Cycadopteris sp.JPG

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

"Cyclopteris"

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • "C." minor

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • St. Bortolomeo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Affinities with Corystospermaceae inside Corystospermales.

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Dichopteris

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • D. rhomboidalis
  • D. paroliniana
  • D. angustifolia
  • D. visianica
  • D. micophylla

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Roverè di Velo
  • Val d´Assa
  • Val Juliani
  • Val Salorno

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

Fronds

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Affinities with Corystospermaceae inside Corystospermales.. Represents the largest "Seed Fern" Leaf in the fossil record, with leaves up to 70 cm, having an habit resembling the extant angiosperm Nypa fruticans.{{Cite journal |last1=THÉVENARD |first1=FRÉDÉRIC |last2=BARALE |first2=GEORGES |last3=GUIGNARD |first3=GAËTAN |last4=DAVIERO-GOMEZ |first4=VÉRONIQUE |last5=GOMEZ |first5=BERNARD |last6=PHILIPPE |first6=MARC |last7=LABERT |first7=NICOLAS |date=2005 |title=Reappraisal of the ill-defined Liassic pteridosperm Dichopteris using an ultrastructural approach |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=149 |issue=3 |pages=313–332 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2005.00439.x |issn=1095-8339}}

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File:Dichopteris visianica.JPG

=Caytoniales=

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Genus

! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

! Images

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Pseudosagenopteris

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  • P. angustifolia

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  • Roverè di Velo

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Leaflets

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Affinities with Caytoniaceae inside Caytoniales.

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Sagenopteris

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  • S. reniformis
  • S. goeppertiana
  • S. nilssoniana

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  • Roverè di Velo

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Leaflets

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Affinities with Caytoniaceae inside Caytoniales. There is a superficial doubt with the assignation to S. goeppertiana, and due to that Roverè di Velo specimen may be confirmed by comparing them with original Zigno's Material.

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File:Sagenopteris nilssoniana.jpg

=Cycadophyta=

class="wikitable sortable"
Genus

! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

! Images

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Androstrobus{{cite journal |last1=Dalla Vecchia |first1=F. M. |date=2000 |title=Macrovegetali terrestri nel Mesozoico italiano: un'ulteriore evidenza di frequenti emersioni |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292602775 |journal=Natura Nascosta |volume=20 |pages=18–35 |access-date=7 July 2023}}

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  • A. ssp.

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Rotzo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Reproductive structure

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Incertade sedis inside Cycadophyta

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Apoldia

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  • A. tenera

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Rotzo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Leaflets

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Incertade sedis inside Cycadophyta. Related with Cycad-like trees.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Cycadospadix

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  • C spp.

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Rotzo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Reproductive structure

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Incertade sedis inside Bennettitales or Cycadophyta

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=Bennettitales=

class="wikitable sortable"
Genus

! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

! Images

style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Blastolepis{{Cite journal |last1=Kustatscher |first1=E. |last2=Roghi |first2=G. |last3=Giusberti |first3=L. |date=2014 |title=La flora del Giurassico dell'italia settentrionale The Jurassic flora of northern Italy |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299600453 |journal=La Storia delle Piante Fossili in Italia. Palaeobotany of Italy (Pp. 154-165). Museo di Scienze Naturali dell'Alto Adige.}}

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  • B. otozamitis
  • B. acuminata

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Rotzo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Reproductive structure

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Incertade sedis inside Bennettitales.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Cycadeospermum

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  • C spp.

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Rotzo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Reproductive structure

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Incertade sedis inside Bennettitales or Cycadophyta

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Deltolepis

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  • D. mitra

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Rotzo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Reproductive structure

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Incertade sedis inside Bennettitales or Cycadophyta

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Lomatopteris

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  • L. jurensis

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  • Roverè di Velo

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Fronds

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Incertade sedis inside Bennettitales.

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File:Lomatopteris jurensis 09.jpg

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Otozamites

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  • O.bunburyanus
  • O. veronensis
  • O. vicentinus
  • O. mattiellianus
  • O. nathorstii
  • O. feistmantelii
  • O. molinianus
  • O. massalongianus
  • O. spp.

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Rotzo
  • Val d´Assa
  • M. Pernigotti
  • S. Bortolomeo

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Pinnate leaf fragments

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Affinities with Williamsoniaceae inside Bennettitales. Overall, the genus Otozamites is among the most abundant flora genus recovered on some of the levels of the Rotzo Formation, and also one of the most diversified. It belongs to arbustive Bennetites.

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File:Otozamites bunburyanus.JPG

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Pterophyllum

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  • P. venetum
  • P. platyrachis

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Rotzo
  • Vall d´Assa
  • M. pernigotti
  • Scandolara

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Leaflets

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Affinities with Williamsoniaceae inside Bennettitales. This genus has been related with the more arboreal family Williamsoniaceae, although is more probably from a low arboreal to arbustive Bennetite.

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Ptilophyllum

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  • P. grandifolium
  • P. triangulare
  • P. spp.

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  • Roverè di Velo

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Leaves

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Affinities with Williamsoniaceae inside Bennettitales. Was previously ascribed by Guiscardi (Director of the Geology Department of the Napoles University between 1861 al 1885) to Pachypteris visianica and Cycadopteris brauniana.

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File:Ptilophyllum grandifolium.JPG

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Sphenozamites{{cite journal |last1=De Zigno |first1=A. |title=Flora fossilis formationis oolithicae Volume 2 |journal=Padova, Tip. Del Seminario |date=1885 |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=1–356 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126794#page/1/mode/1up |access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Wesley |first1=A. |title=Contributions to the knowledge of the flora of the Grey Limestones of Veneto, Part 2 |journal=Mem. Ist. Geol. Min. Univ. Padova |year=1958 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=1–57}}

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  • S. rossii
  • S. spp.

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  • Roverè di Velo

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Leaflets

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Affinities with Williamsoniaceae inside Bennettitales. Related with Cycad-like trees.

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Weltrichia

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  • W. oolithica
  • W. sp.

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Selva di Progno

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Bennettite "Flower"

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Affinities with Williamsoniaceae inside Bennettitales. Weltrichia is considered by some authors some kind of Bennetitalean Flower, putting that group on relationships with the Angiosperms.

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style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Wielandiella{{Cite journal |last=Fiore |first=M. |date=1935 |title=Presenza della Wielandiella angustifolia Nath. nel lias veronese (Rovere di Velo). |journal=Atti della Accademia Na zio nale dei Lincei, Rendiconti, Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=467-469}}

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  • W. angustifolia

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  • Roverè di Velo

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |‘strobilus’

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |Affinities with Williamsoniaceae inside Bennettitales.

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Williamsonia

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • W. italica

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  • Monte raut
  • Roverè di Velo

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Bennettite "Flower"

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Affinities with Williamsoniaceae inside Bennettitales.

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File:Williamsonia italica.jpg

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Zamites

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  • Z. goepperti
  • Z. ribeiroanus
  • Z. rotzoanus

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  • Rotzo
  • M. pernigotti
  • S. Bortolomeo

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Leaflets

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Incertade sedis inside Bennettitales. This genus has been related with the more arboreal family Williamsoniaceae, although is more probably from a low arboreal to arbustive Bennetite.

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=Ginkgoopsida=

class="wikitable sortable"
Genus

! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

! Images

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Trevisania{{cite journal |last1=Wesley |first1=A. |date=1956 |title=Contributions to the knowledge of the flora of the Grey Limestones of Veneto, Part 1 |journal=Mem. Ist. Geol. Min. Univ. Padova |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=1–69}}

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  • T. furcellata

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Val d´Assa

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Leaves

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Affinities with the genus Trichopitys, as probably a member of Karkeniaceae inside Ginkgoopsida, with strong resemblance with the genus Baiera, lumped in some papers as Baiera lindleyana.

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File:Baiera.jpg

=Conifers=

class="wikitable sortable"
Genus

! Species

! Location

! Material

! Notes

! Images

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Brachyphyllum

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  • B. tropidimorphyrn
  • B. graciliforme
  • B. kendallianum
  • B. appropinquatum
  • B. praetermissum

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Pernigotti
  • Boca di Trappola
  • Rotzo
  • Valle Zulliani

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  • Branched shoots
  • Isolated leaves

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Affinities with Araucariaceae or Cheirolepidiaceae inside Coniferales. Brachyphyllum tropidimorphyrn shows close resemblance between African and Venetian conifers and its distribution suggests a lowland araucarian forest.{{cite journal |last1=Krassilov |first1=V. A. |title=Araucariaceae as indicators of climate and paleolatitudes. |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |date=1978 |volume=26 |issue=1–4 |pages=113–124|doi=10.1016/0034-6667(78)90008-8 |bibcode=1978RPaPa..26..113K }}

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File:Brachyphyllum in Vicenza.jpg

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Dactylethrophyllum

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  • D. peristictum

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • Scandolara

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Branched shoots

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Affinities with Cheirolepidiaceae inside Coniferales.

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Desmiophyllum

|style="background:#D1FFCF;" |

  • D. zeillerianum
  • D. rigidum

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Valle Zuliani

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Isolated leaves

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A possible Conifer leaf. Was suggested to have affinities with Czekanowskiales, sometimes found inside Ginkgoopsida, yet recent finds of it associated with the cone genera Sphaerostrobus and Ourostrobus points to a coniferophyte affinity, maybe as a member of Palissyaceae.{{Cite journal |last1=van Konijnenburg-van Cittert|first1=J.H.A. |last2=Schmeißner|first2=S.|last3=D.|first3=G.|last4=Kustatscher|first4=E.|last5=Pott|first5=C.|date=2024-03-13 |title=Plant macrofossils from the Rhaetian of Einberg near Coburg (Bavaria, Germany). Part 3. Conifers, incertae sedis and general discussion|journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=310 |issue=3 |pages=251–282 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2023/1182 |issn=0077-7749}}

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Elatocladus

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  • E. zignoi
  • E. veronensis
  • cf. E. sp.

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Val d´Assa
  • Rotzo

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Branched shoots

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Affinities with Cupressaceae inside Coniferales. Arboreal plants similar to the modern genus Cunninghamia

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File:Elatocladus zignoi.jpg

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Pagiophyllum

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  • P. rotzoanum
  • P. vicentinum
  • P. veronense
  • P. magnipapillare
  • P. valdassense
  • P. robustum
  • P. revoltinum

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Val d´Assa
  • Rotzo
  • Pernigotti
  • Monte Carpani

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  • Isolated Leaves
  • Branched Shoots
  • Cuticles

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Affinities with Araucariaceae or Cheirolepidiaceae inside Coniferales. One of the specimens was assigned to Otozamites massalongianus, due to confusing the overlapping appearance and the Otozamites-like shape of the leaves of the apical portion of the main shoot.

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File:Pagiophyllum rotzoanum.JPG

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Pelourdea

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  • P. megaphylla

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  • Roverè di Velo
  • Val d´Assa
  • Rotzo
  • Scandolara
  • Squaranton
  • Bienterle

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  • Isolated Leaves
  • Pollen Organ

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Incertae sedis inside Coniferales, initially identified as "Yuccites schimperianus", suggested as a member of its own family, the "Pelourdeaceae". A hygrophytic riparian conifer with herbaceous or shrubby habit. Some specimens are difficult to identify.

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Stachyotaxus

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  • S. spp.

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  • Valle Zuliani
  • Roverè di Velo

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Branched shoots

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Affinities with Palyssiaceae inside Coniferales. Extinct group conifer leaves with similarities with Sequoia or Amentotaxus. Maybe Includes the species "Taxites vicentina".

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