Cassina, bed 38 (Triassic of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cassina Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, carbonaceous lime mudstone and lithified, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 2006

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Repository: Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale (Lugano)

Primary reference: A. López-Arbarello, T. Bürgin, H. Furrer and R. Stockar. 2016. New holostean fishes (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of the Monte San Giorgio (Canton Ticino, Switzerland). PeerJ 4(e2234):1-61 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122066: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.12.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Ceresiosaurus sp. Peyer 1931 diapsid
Actinopteri
 Holostei -
Ticinolepis longaeva López-Arbarello et al. 2016
Osteichthyes
 Luganoiiformes - Luganoiidae
Besania sp. Brough 1939 ray-finned fish
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Saurichthys spp. Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish
 Ionoscopiformes - Subortichthyidae
Eoeugnathus sp. Brough 1939 ray-finned fish