Where: Switzerland (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 21.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grenzbitumenzone Member (Besano Formation), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Vertebrate-bearing beds span Anisian-Ladinian boundary but vast majority are Illyrian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, carbonaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by C. Wiman

• Repository: Geological Institute Uppsala

Primary reference: E. Andersson. 1916. Über einige Trias-Fische aus der Cava Trefontane, Tessin. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala 15:13-34 [M. Clapham/D. Robinson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117994: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by David Robinson on 30.09.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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