Brembilla (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.8° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.2° N, 13.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcare di Zorzino Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• Upper Norian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: From Bergamo Museum of Natural History "E. Caffi" collection

Primary reference: A. Tintori and S. Renesto. 1983. The Macrosemiidae (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Upper Triassic of Lombardy (N. Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 89(2):209-222 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121996: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Brembodontidae
Brembodus ridens1 Tintori 1981
 Semionotiformes - Macrosemiidae
 Holostei - Dapediidae
Dapedium noricum2 Tintori 1983