Where: Italy (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 21.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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, carbonaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Civico di Milano (MCSM), possibly destroyed during the Second World War. Some of Alessandri's material is at Liceo Ginnasio "A. Volta" school in Como.

Primary reference: G. de Alessandri. 1910. Studii sui pesci Triasici della Lombardia. Memorie della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 7(1):1-145 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117943: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 29.09.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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