PBDB Collection

Cà del Frate, Viggiù, Monte San Giorgio (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kalkschiefer Member (Meride Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Uppermost Ladinian, middle Kalkschiefer zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: "Recent collections" in the 1990s. Repository: Civico Museo Insubrico di Storia Naturale di Induno Olona.

Primary reference: A. Tintori and S. Renesto. 1983. The Macrosemiidae (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Upper Triassic of Lombardy (N. Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 89(2):209-222 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116568: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2011, edited by Trisha Wolfe, Roger Benson, Priscilla Vazquez and Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Eosauropterygia - Pachypleurosauridae	Neusticosaurus edwardsii n. sp.⁸ Neusticosaurus edwardsii n. sp.⁸ Sander 1989 diapsid
Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae	Lariosaurus sp.⁷, Lariosaurus valceresii n. sp.⁷ Lariosaurus sp.⁷ Curioni 1847 diapsid juvenile Lariosaurus valceresii n. sp.⁷ Tintori and Renesto 1990 diapsid Holotype specimen in Museo Civico di Szienze Naturali di Induno Olona (P 500)
Osteichthyes
Ionoscopiformes - Subortichthyidae	"Allolepidotus bellottii" = Eoeugnathus bellottii⁴ "Allolepidotus bellottii" = Eoeugnathus bellottii⁴ Rueppell 1857 ray-finned fish MCSNIO P643-660, 669-677, 682-685, 688-690
Ionoscopiformes - Furidae	Archaeosemionotus sp.⁶ Archaeosemionotus sp.⁶ Deecke 1889 ray-finned fish MCSNIO P456
Actinopteri
Holostei -	Sangiorgioichthys aldae n. gen.¹¹ Sangiorgioichthys aldae n. gen.¹¹ Tintori and Lombardo 2007
Semionotiformes - Macrosemiidae	Legnonotus obtusus n. sp. Legnonotus obtusus n. sp. Tintori and Renesto 1983
Prohaleciteiformes - Prohaleciteidae	Prohalecites sp.¹, Prohalecites porroi⁹ Prohalecites sp.¹ MCSNIO P378-1, 657-8 Prohalecites porroi⁹ Bellotti 1857 MCSNIO P15L, 331, 342-3, 349a, 335, 338, 352, 355, 358, 361-1, 361-2, 362, 364, 368, 370-1, 370-2, 370-3, 370-4, 372, 374-1, 374-2, 377, 378-1, 378-2, 379, 384, 393-4, 397, 400, 407, 410, 413, 651-6, 659a-d, and hundreds more
Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae	Peltopleurus nuptialis n. sp.³ Peltopleurus nuptialis n. sp.³ Lombardo 1999
Perleidiformes - Perleididae	Perleidus altolepis², Dipteronotus olgiatii n. sp.¹⁰ Perleidus altolepis² Deecke 1889 Dipteronotus olgiatii n. sp.¹⁰ Tintori 1990
Perleidiformes -	Daninia spinosa n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Daninia spinosa n. gen. n. sp.⁴ Lombardo 2001 MCSNIO P668, 618, 666, 667, 669-675
Osteichthyes
Palaeonisciformes -	Caelatichthys nitens n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Caelatichthys nitens n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Lombardo 2002 MCSNIO P561, 464-5, 555-6, 559, 562, 554, 558, 560, 563-599

¹Arratia and Tintori 1999; ²Lombardo 1995; ³Lombardo 1999; ⁴Lombardo 2001; ⁵Lombardo 2002; ⁶López-Arbarello et al. 2014; ⁷Rieppel 1998; ⁸Rieppel and Lin 1995; ⁹Tintori 1990; ¹⁰Tintori 1990; ¹¹Tintori and Lombardo 2007