Also known as Val Porina
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 in 1929
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 132286: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 11.08.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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