Where: Switzerland (45.9° N, 8.9° 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 in 1950-1968
Collection methods: quarrying,
• "Tessin collection" of the Palaontologisches Institut und Museum der Universitat Zurich (PIMUZ T. numbers), collected intensively from 1950-1968.
Primary reference: T. Bürgin. 1992. Basal ray-finned fishes (Osteichthyes; Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Tessin, Switzerland). Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 114:1-164 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122063: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Ptycholepis magnus n. sp.
Ptycholepis magnus n. sp. Bürgin 1992 ray-finned fish | |
Actinopteri | |
Ticinolepis sp. López-Arbarello et al. 2016 |