Where: Switzerland (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 21.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grenzbitumenzone Member (Besano Formation), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite and lithified, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1968

Collection methods: quarrying,

• "Tessin collection" of the Palaontologisches Institut und Museum der Universitat Zurich (PIMUZ T. numbers), collected intensively from 1950-1968.

Primary reference: W. Etter. 1994. A new penaeid shrimp (Antrimpos mirigiolensis n. sp., Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Middle Triassic of the Monte San Giorgio (Ticino, Switzerland). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte 1994(4):223-230 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226134: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.06.2022

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