Point 902, Monte San Giorgio, Bed 118 (Triassic of Switzerland)

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 1957

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: O. Rieppel. 1982. A new genus of shark from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland. Palaeontology 25(2):399-412 [M. Clapham/T. Wolfe/T. Wolfe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117944: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Trisha Wolfe on 29.09.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
Rieppelia heinzfurreri Ferrante and Cavin 2023 coelacanth
PIMUZ T 1271, 1288, 1321, 1325
Chondrichthyes
 Euselachii -
Acronemus tuberculatus n. gen. Bassani 1886 elasmobranch