Where: Italy (40.7° N, 14.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 13.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dolomia Principale Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)
• Middle-upper part of the Dolomia Principale (Tintori et al., 1985)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, carbonaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: Museo Paleontologico, University of Napoli
Primary reference: F. Bassani. 1895. La ittiofauna della Dolomia Principale di Giffoni (Provincia di Salerno). Palaeontographica Italica 1:169-210 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153108: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 07.12.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coelacanthimorpha | |
? Undina sp., "Urocomus picenus n. gen. n. sp." = Holophagus picenus
? Undina sp. Munster 1834 coelacanth
"Urocomus picenus n. gen. n. sp." = Holophagus picenus Costa 1862 coelacanth | |
Actinopteri | |
Colobodus latus Agassiz 1833 Part of Semionotus curtulus, Lepidotus notopterus in Costa 1853; L. notopterus (part), L. acutirostris (part), S. curtulus (part) Lepidotus notopterus in Costa 1860; S. curtulus (part) in Costa 1862, 1864; L. acutirostris (part) in Costa 1864
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"Colobodus ornatus" = Paralepidotus ornatus, "Lepidotus acutirostris n. sp." = Paralepidotus ornatus
"Colobodus ornatus" = Paralepidotus ornatus Agassiz 1832 Lepidotus gigas in Costa 1853, 1860; Lepidotus sp., part of Semionotus curtulus, Semionotus sp., part of Urocomus picenus in Costa 1862
"Lepidotus acutirostris n. sp." = Paralepidotus ornatus Agassiz 1832 | |
"Omalopleurus speciosus n. gen. n. sp." = Dapedius costai
"Omalopleurus speciosus n. gen. n. sp." = Dapedius costai Bassani 1892 Fam. Coccostei? in Costa, 1861
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"Thoracopterus magnificus" = Italopterus magnificus
"Thoracopterus magnificus" = Italopterus magnificus Tintori and Sassi 1987 Part of Urocomus picenus in Costa 1862; Pterygopterus sp. in Bassani, 1892
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Osteichthyes | |
Eugnathus brachilepis n. sp., "Pholidophorus cephalus" = Heterolepidotus cephalus, "Notagogus incertus n. sp." = Heterolepidotus cephalus
Eugnathus brachilepis n. sp. Bassani 1895 ray-finned fish Semionotus carinulatus in Costa 1860; Eugnathus cf. serratus and insignis in Bassani 1892
"Pholidophorus cephalus" = Heterolepidotus cephalus Kner 1866 ray-finned fish Semionotus curtulus? in Costa 1864
"Notagogus incertus n. sp." = Heterolepidotus cephalus Kner 1866 ray-finned fish | |
"Giffonus deperditus n. gen. n. sp." = Saurichthys deperditus, Belonorhynchus sp.
"Giffonus deperditus n. gen. n. sp." = Saurichthys deperditus Costa 1862 ray-finned fish
Belonorhynchus sp. Bronn 1858 ray-finned fish Palaeoniscus sp. in Costa 1856, 1862; Acipenser sp. in Costa 1862
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