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 | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Acronemus tuberculatus n. gen.
Acronemus tuberculatus n. gen. Bassani 1886 elasmobranch |