Seefeld, BMNH collection (Triassic of Austria)

Where: Tirol, Austria (47.3° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 15.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Seefelder Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• "Graben-like depressions on an extended marine carbonate platform...marginal position with restricted water circulation and anoxic conditions within the bottom zone".
• "Bedded, slightly bituminous, dark gray limestones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: O. Nybelin. 1966. On certain Triassic and Liassic representatives of the family Pholidophoridae s. str. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 2(8):351-432 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130601: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 11.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae
Peltopleurus humilis
Peltopleurus humilis Kner 1867
BMNH P.1103 (Egerton Coll.)
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus latiusculus, Pholidophorus pusillus
Pholidophorus latiusculus Agassiz 1832
BMNH 33987-88, 33990 (presented by Sir R. I. Murchison, K. C. B., 1860), P.1063, P.1059, (Egerton Coll.), 21382 (purchased 1847), 21385-87 (purchased 1847), P.3590, P.3585, P.4417-18 (Enniskillen Coll.), 21390-91 (purchased 1847)
Pholidophorus pusillus Agassiz 1833
BMNH P.4418 in Woodward (1895)
 Semionotiformes - Callipurbeckiidae
"Lepidotus ornatus" = Paralepidotus ornatus
"Lepidotus ornatus" = Paralepidotus ornatus Agassiz 1832
BMNH 13444 (purchased 1836), P.1540, P.4657 (Egerton & Enniskillen Colls.), 21375 (purchased 1847), P.1539 (Egerton Coll.), P.3622, P.4706 (Enniskillen Coll)
 Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae
"Semionotus latus" = Colobodus latus
"Semionotus latus" = Colobodus latus Agassiz 1833
BMNH 21377 (purchased 1847), P.1104, P.3622a (Egerton and Enniskillen Colls.), P.1549 (Egerton Coll.)
Osteichthyes
 Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
"Pholidophorus cephalus" = Heterolepidotus cephalus, "Semionotus striatus" = Heterolepidotus striatus, "Pholidophorus dorsalis" = Heterolepidotus dorsalis
"Pholidophorus cephalus" = Heterolepidotus cephalus Kner 1866 ray-finned fish
BMNH 21383 (purchased 1847)
"Semionotus striatus" = Heterolepidotus striatus Agassiz 1837 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.3621-a (Enniskillen Coll.)
"Pholidophorus dorsalis" = Heterolepidotus dorsalis Agassiz 1833 ray-finned fish
BMNH 21380 (purchased 1847), P.1544 (Egerton Coll.), 16655 (purchased)