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New dasycladalean algae from the Middle Norian (Upper Triassic) of northern Italy (Mt. Pramaggiore, Carnic Prealps)

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In the Eastern Southern Alps of northern Italy (Carnic Prealps, Friuli region), the shallow-water carbonate platform deposits of the Dolomia Principale Fm. (Norian–Rhaetian, Upper Triassic) show best-preserved platform to basin facies transition. The palaeontological study of an algal-rich level recovered from the platform margin facies (Mt. Pramaggiore) has displayed a very interesting association of Dasycladales. Two new genera (Bystrickyella and Elliottporella) and four new species (Bystrickyella ottii, Elliottporella morelloae, Palaeodasycladus lorigae and Holosporella conradii) have been described. These new data suggest that the Norian represents a period of turnover in the evolutionary history of the green algae community. This stage, placed between two extinctions, end-Ladinian and end-Norian, is here interpreted as a re-organization period of the evolutionary schemes of Dasycladales. The new lineages originated in the Norian developed further and characterized the Early Jurassic scenery.

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The present research has been funded by grant from MURST (PRIN 2004 Barattolo). A. Cozzi thanks the Department of Earth Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) for providing research funds to sponsor the fieldwork in Italy. Sincere thanks to A. Freiwald, B. Senowbari-Daryan, and the anonymous reviewer for their suggestions and comments.

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Barattolo, F., Cozzi, A. & Romano, R. New dasycladalean algae from the Middle Norian (Upper Triassic) of northern Italy (Mt. Pramaggiore, Carnic Prealps). Facies 54, 549–580 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-008-0146-4

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