Cava Tre Fontane, Tessin collection, Monte San Giorgio: Illyrian, Switzerland
collected by B. Peyer, PIMUZ
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Cymbospondylidae
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Cymbospondylus buchseri n. sp.
Sander 1989
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1 individual | |||||||||
PIMUZ T 4351 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Perleidiformes
- Perleididae
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Meridensia meridensis
(de Alessandri 1910)
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Bürgin 1992 | 8 specimens | ||||||||
Actinopteri
- Louwoichthyiformes
- Louwoichthyidae
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Ctenognathichthys bellottii
(de Alessandri 1910)
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Bürgin 1992 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Actinopteri
- Peltopleuriformes
- Peltopleuridae
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Peltopleurus lissocephalus
Brough 1939
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Bürgin 1992 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Platysiagum minus
Brough 1939
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Bürgin 1992 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Palaeonisciformes
- Bobasatraniidae
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Bobasatrania ceresiensis
Bürgin 1992
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Bürgin 1992 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Ptycholepiformes
- Ptycholepididae
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Ptycholepis schaefferi
Bürgin 1992
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Bürgin 1992 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Ptycholepis barboi
Bassani 1886
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Bürgin 1992 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
Ptycholepis magnus
Bürgin 1992
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Bürgin 1992 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Pholidopleuriformes
- Pholidopleuridae
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Pholidopleurus ticinensis
Bürgin 1992
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Bürgin 1992 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus cf. plicatilis
Agassiz 1834
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Rieppel 1981 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
PIMUZ T3824 | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Acrodontidae
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? Acrodus lateralis
Agassiz 1839
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Rieppel 1981 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
PIMUZ T8342 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Switzerland |
Coordinates: | 45.9° North, 8.9° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 7.0° North, 21.7° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
Stage: | Anisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
Key time interval: | Illyrian | ||
Age range of interval: | 243.80000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Besano | Member: | Grenzbitumenzone |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | planar lamination lithified carbonaceous dolomite |
Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | preferred |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collectors: | B. Peyer, PIMUZ |
Collection method comments: "Tessin collection" of the Palaontologisches Institut und Museum der Universitat Zurich (PIMUZ T. numbers), begun in 1924 by Berhard Peyer and collected through at least 1968. Ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus collected in 1927. |
Metadata
Database number: | 98104 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, M. Clapham | Enterer: | H. Street, P. Vazquez, M. Clapham |
Modifier: | J. Tennant | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-09-20 13:24:01 | Last modified: | 2013-05-06 07:48:31 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-09-20 13:24:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
33922. | P. M. Sander. 1989. The large ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus buchseri, sp. nov. from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland), with a survey of the genus in Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(2):163-173 [M. Carrano/H. Street/H. Street] |
Secondary references:
38853 | T. Bürgin. 1992. Basal ray-finned fishes (Osteichthyes; Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Tessin, Switzerland). Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 114:1-164 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
42588 | O. Rieppel. 1981. The hybodontiform sharks from the Middle Triassic of Mte. San Giorgio, Switzerland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 161:324-353 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham] | |
46676 | P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |