Where: Switzerland (45.9° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 21.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Grenzbitumenzone Member (Besano Formation), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite and lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by B. Peyer, PIMUZ
Collection methods: quarrying,
• "Tessin collection" of the Palaontologisches Institut und Museum der Universitat Zurich (PIMUZ T. numbers), begun in 1924 by Berhard Peyer and collected through at least 1968.
Primary reference: E. Kuhn. 1945. Über Acrodus-Funde aus dem Grenzbitumen-horizont der anisischen Stufe der Trias des Monte San Giorgio (Kt. Tessin). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 48:662-673 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122060: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.12.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
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Gracilignathichthys microlepis n. gen. n. sp.1
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Actinopteri | |
Meridensia meridensis1 de Alessandri 1910
Aetheodontus besanensis1 Brough 1939 | |
Peltopleurus cf. lissocephalus1 Brough 1939 | |
Peripeltopleurus vexillipinnis1 Bürgin 1992 | |
Ctenognathichthys bellottii1 de Alessandri 1910 | |
Osteichthyes | |
Gyrolepis sp.1 Agassiz 1833 | |
Bobasatrania ceresiensis n. sp.1
Bobasatrania ceresiensis n. sp.1 Bürgin 1992 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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