Val Porina, mineraletto or minerale che si divide, Monte San Giorgio (Triassic of Switzerland)

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

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

• Clarazia schinzi is from the Grenzbitumenzone (Anisian/Ladinian), probably the layers "mineraletto (14) and /or minerale che si divide: (most probably equivalent to layer 78 at p. 902). Rieppel 1987.

•Stratigraphic range extrapolated from Stockar et al. 2012. Swiss J. Geosci.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: O. Rieppel. 1987. Clarazia and Hescheleria: A re-investigation of two problematic reptiles from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland). Palaeontographica, Abt. A, Palaeozoologie-Stratigraphie 195(4-6):101-129 [M. Uhen/A. Jukar]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174989: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Advait Jukar on 01.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Thalattosauria -
Clarazia schinzi Peyer 1936 diapsid