Cava Tre Fontane, minerale 2, Tessin collection, Monte San Giorgio (Triassic of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 21.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grenzbitumenzone Member (Besano Formation), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, carbonaceous dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1935

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: O. Rieppel. 1981. The hybodontiform sharks from the Middle Triassic of Mte. San Giorgio, Switzerland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 161:324-353 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 132290: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 11.08.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus georgii Mutter 1998 elasmobranch
PIMUZ T3839