Also known as Monte San Giorgio

Where: Ticino, Switzerland (45.9° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 8.0° N, 20.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Cava Inferiore beds Member (Meride Formation), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• "from an isolated slab which had fallen from the side of the slope... very probably beds 29-30... which are of Early Ladinian age"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: S. Renesto. 2005. A new specimen of Tanystropheus (Reptilia Protorosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland and the ecology of the genus. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 111(3):377-394 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106697: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.03.2011

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