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: basinal (); lithified, carbonaceous lime mudstone and lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected in 2006
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Repository: Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale (Lugano)
Primary reference: S. Renesto and R. Stockar. 2009. Exceptional preservation of embryos in the actinopterygian Saurichthys from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 102:323-330 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180508: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Saurichthys curionii Bellotti 1857 ray-finned fish | |
Actinopteri | |
Ticinolepis longaeva López-Arbarello et al. 2016 | |
Neusticosaurus | |
Neusticosaurus sp. Seeley 1882 |