western slope Schesaplana, Northern Calcareous Alps (Triassic to of Switzerland)

Also known as Caviramus holotype site

Where: Canton Grisons, Switzerland (47.0° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 14.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Alplihorn Member (Kössen Formation), Sevatian to Sevatian (212.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• late Norian-early Rhaetian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• "shallow lagoon or intrashelf basin"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: N. B. Fröbisch and J. Fröbisch. 2006. A new basal pterosaur genus from the Upper Triassic of the Northern Calcareous Alps of Switzerland. Palaeontology 49(5):1081-1090 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87875: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 27.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Caviramus schesaplanensis
Caviramus schesaplanensis Fröbisch and Fröbisch 2006 pterosaur
PIMUZ A ⁄ III 1225 (holotype), mandible