Newsletters on Stratigraphy, Vol. 50/2 (2017), 187–203 Article Published online February 2017; published in print April 2017 Contribution to the magnetostratigraphy of the Carnian: new magneto-biostratigraphic constraints from Pignola-2 and Dibona marine sections, Italy Matteo Maron 1,2 , Giovanni Muttoni 2 , Mark J. Dekkers 3 , Michele Mazza 2 , Guido Roghi 4 , Anna Breda 1 , Wout Krijgsman 3 , and Manuel Rigo 1,4 With 8 figures, 1 plate and 1 table Abstract. In an effort to improve the calibration of the Late Triassic time scale, two stratigraphic succes- sions in Italy were investigated for magnetostratigraphy: the Pignola-2 (Southern Apennines) and the Dibona (Dolomites) sections. These sections reveal a sequence of biostratigraphically calibrated (conodonts and palynomorphs) magnetic polarity zones encompassing the Julian/Tuvalian boundary (Carnian). A total of 63 samples have been collected from the Pignola-2 section that helped defining 3 magnetozones. These data are constrained by a published radiometric U/Pb age of 230.91  0.33 Ma from the Aglianico ash-bed (Furin et al. 2006). From the Dibona section, 81 samples have been collected, revealing 2 magnetozones in the Heiligkreuz Fm. (lower part of the succession) and 2 magnetozones in the Travenanzes Fm. (upper part). The Dibona section provided only few high-quality paleomagnetic data in spite of the sampling effort, so we con- sidered only the Pignola-2 section as suitable for the correlation with other Carnian sections from the litera- ture, in order to define the magnetostratigraphy around the Julian/Tuvalian boundary in the Tethys realm. The correlation between the Pignola-2 and the Newark Astrochronological Polarity Time Scale (APTS) provides independent insights on the age of the base of the Newark basin APTS. We found that the U-Pb zircon-dated Pignola-2 level, magnetostratigraphically projected on the Newark APTS, falls within Chrons E5–E4 at around 231 Ma, in agreement with the (extrapolated) astrochronological ages of the Newark APTS. Key words. Late Triassic, Carnian, magnetostratigraphy, geochronology © 2017 Gebrüder Borntraeger, Stuttgart, Germany DOI: 10.1127/nos/2017/0291 www.borntraeger-cramer.de 0078-0421/2017/0291 $ 4.25 Authors’ addresses: 1 Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, via G. Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy. matteo.maron.1@studenti. unipd.it, anna.breda@unipd.it, manuel.rigo@unipd.it 2 Department of Earth Sciences “Ardito Desio”, University of Milano, via L. Mangiagalli 34, 20133 Milano, Italy. giovanni. muttoni1@unimi.it, michele.mazza@unimi.it, matteo.maron@unimi.it 3 Paleomagnetic Laboratory “Fort Hoofddijk”, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, 3584 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands. M.J.Dekkers@uu.nl, W.Krijgsman@uu.nl 4 Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources – CNR, Via G.Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy. guido.roghi@igg.cnr.it, manuel.rigo@unipd.it * Corresponding author: matteo.maron.1@studenti.unipd.it, matteo.maron@unimi.it eschweizerbart_xxx