Seefeld, Innsbruck 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

Collection methods: Repository: Univ. Institut für Geologie und Palaontologie, Innsbruck

Primary reference: R. Kner. 1866. Die fossilen Fische der Asphaltschiefer von Seefeld in Tirol. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 54:303-334 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130602: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 11.07.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
"Semionotus striatus" = Heterolepidotus striatus, "Pholidophorus cephalus n. sp." = Heterolepidotus cephalus, "Pholidophorus dorsalis n. sp." = Heterolepidotus dorsalis, "Eugnathus insignis n. sp." = Furo insignis
"Semionotus striatus" = Heterolepidotus striatus Agassiz 1837 ray-finned fish
"Pholidophorus cephalus n. sp." = Heterolepidotus cephalus Kner 1866 ray-finned fish
"Pholidophorus dorsalis n. sp." = Heterolepidotus dorsalis Agassiz 1833 ray-finned fish
"Eugnathus insignis n. sp." = Furo insignis Kner 1866 ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus latiusculus, Pholidophorus pusillus
Pholidophorus latiusculus Agassiz 1832
F.123, Lit. F, No.1028, 6b-c, 27a, 126b (specimens in Nybelin, 1966)
Pholidophorus pusillus Agassiz 1833
 Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae
"Semionotus latus" = Colobodus latus
"Semionotus latus" = Colobodus latus Agassiz 1833
 Semionotiformes - Callipurbeckiidae
"Lepidotus ornatus" = Paralepidotus ornatus
"Lepidotus ornatus" = Paralepidotus ornatus Agassiz 1832
 Lepisosteiformes -
"Lepidotus sp." = Lepidotes, Lepidotus ? parvulus
"Lepidotus sp." = Lepidotes Agassiz 1832 gar
Lepidotus ? parvulus Agassiz 1843 gar
 Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae
Peltopleurus humilis n. sp.
Peltopleurus humilis n. sp. Kner 1867