Cassina, bed 29: Fassanian, Switzerland
collected 2006
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Eosauropterygia
- Nothosauridae
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Ceresiosaurus sp.
Peyer 1931
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Reptilia
- Eosauropterygia
- Pachypleurosauridae
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Neusticosaurus sp.
(Seeley 1882)
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original and current combination Psilotrachelosaurus | |||||||
Saurichthyiformes
- Saurichthyidae
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Saurichthys spp.
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Actinopteri
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Ticinolepis longaeva
López-Arbarello et al. 2016
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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: | planar lamination lithified carbonaceous lime mudstone |
Environment: | basinal (carbonate) |
Geology comments: Bottom of a basin below wave base and adjacent to a shallow-water carbonate platform from which a recurrent carbonate supply reached the basin floor, contributing to the sediment lamination. Vertebrate assemblages and the lack of stenohaline invertebrates point to an environment with limited connection to the open sea. Episodic, short-lived depositional events occur randomly and are related to sediment input from basin margins (turbidite lithofacies) and to volcanic activity (tephra lithofacies). |
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: | 180497 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2016-07-20 00:12:39 | Last modified: | 2016-07-20 00:12:39 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-07-20 00:12:39 |
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] |