Point 902, Monte San Giorgio, Bed 148: Fassanian, Switzerland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Aulacoceratida - Xiphoteuthididae
? Mojsisovicsteuthis sp. Jeletzky 1966
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Trematoceratidae
Trematoceras elegans (Muenster 1831)
Pohle and Klug 2024
Actinopteri
López-Arbarello et al. 2016 5 specimens
Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Saurichthys curionii (Bellotti 1857)
Rieppel 1985 1 specimen
PIMUZ T 835
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland State/province:Ticino
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 8.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.8° North, 20.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Ladinian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Fassanian Ammonoid zone: Curionii
Age range of interval:242.00000 - 239.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Besano Member:Grenzbitumenzone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified dolomite
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:44709
Authorizer:D. Bottjer, M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2004-09-16 11:28:13 Last modified:2014-01-02 15:52:22
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-16 11:28:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11682. H. Rieber. 1973. Die Triasfauna der Tessiner Kalkalpen: XXII. Cephalopoden aus der Grenzbitumenzone (Mittlere Trias) des Monte San Giorgio (Kanton Tessin, Schweiz). Schweizerische Palaeontologische Abhandlungen 93:1-96 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

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]
88159 A. Pohle and C. Klug. 2024. Orthoceratoid and coleoid cephalopods from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland with an updated taxonomic framework for Triassic Orthoceratoidea. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143(14) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
49684 O. Rieppel. 1985. Die Gattung Saurichthys (Pisces, Actinopterygii) aus der mittleren Trias des Monte San Giorgio, Kanton Tessin. Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 108:1-103 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]