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DOLOMITES - Annexes 2-8 - Provincia di Udine

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NOMINATION OF THE <strong>DOLOMITES</strong> FOR INSCRIPTION ON THE WORLD NATURAL HERITAGE LIST UNESCO<br />

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the Eastern Dolomites (Broglio Loriga et alii, 1983). The fossils in the Werfen Formation are dominated<br />

by mollusks (lamellibranchs and gastropods: the ammonoids only appear in the upper portion<br />

of the formation), ostracods, inarticulate brachiopods (lingulids). The remains of echinoderms<br />

(ophiuroids, echinids and crinoids) become significant only from the upper portion of the Campil<br />

Member upward. However, entire groups of marine organisms are absent, such as calcareous algae,<br />

corals, and articulate brachiopods across the Permian-Triassic extinction boundary. Opportunistic<br />

taxa such as the Eotriassic fauna are composed of an extremely limited number of short-lived, weakly-specialized<br />

taxa that <strong>di</strong>d not need to maintain competitive advantages and were able to live in varying<br />

environmental con<strong>di</strong>tions, thereby having a special, large, <strong>di</strong>ffusion.<br />

The control on the Lower Triassic biostratigraphic succession is accurate. A few types of benthic mollusks,<br />

such as Claraia, Eumorphotis, Costatoria, Natiria, Turbo were chronostratigraphically shortlived<br />

but geographically widespread (Tethys and Arctic). In the upper portion of the Werfen Formation<br />

(Val Ba<strong>di</strong>a and Cencenighe Members) the ammonoids of the genus Theodolites and Dina rites<br />

are also fairly frequent, permitting good correlation with the Spathian terrains, both in Tethys and<br />

in South America.<br />

Eumorphotys and Unionites (Werfen Fm)<br />

Claraia Clarai (Werfen Fm)

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