Where: Italy (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 20.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Besano Formation, Illyrian to Illyrian (247.2 - 235.0 Ma)

• Upper Besano Formation (sensu Röhl et al. 2001), uppermost Anisian/lowermost Ladinian (uppermost N. secedensis Zone/lowermost E. curioni Zone sensu Brack et al. 2005), Middle Triassic.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, carbonaceous dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano (MSNM)

Primary reference: M. Viaretti, G. Bindellini, and C. Dal Sasso. 2023. A new Mesozoic scorpion from the Besano Formation (Middle Triassic, Monte San Giorgio UNESCO WHL), Italy. PalZ 97:505-517 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117255: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 18.09.2011

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