Cassina, bed 38: Fassanian, Switzerland
collected 2006

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
Ticinolepis longaeva López-Arbarello et al. 2016
Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Ceresiosaurus sp. Peyer 1931
Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Saurichthys spp.
Luganoiiformes - Luganoiidae
Besania sp. Brough 1939
Ionoscopiformes - Subortichthyidae
Eoeugnathus sp. Brough 1939
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 8.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.8° North, 20.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Ladinian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Fassanian
Age range of interval:242.00000 - 239.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cassina
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified carbonaceous lime mudstone
Secondary lithology:black lithified "shale"
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:2006
Collection method comments: Repository: Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale (Lugano)
Metadata
Database number:122066
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-12-15 18:50:35 Last modified:2016-07-19 23:49:56
Access level:the public Released:2011-12-15 18:50:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
59894. A. López-Arbarello, T. Bürgin, H. Furrer and R. Stockar. 2016. New holostean fishes (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of the Monte San Giorgio (Canton Ticino, Switzerland). PeerJ 4(e2234):1-61 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]