Perledo (Curioni collection) (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.0° N, 9.3° E: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 20.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Perledo Member (Perledo-Varenna Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, carbonaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Curioni

• Repository: possibly in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Milano (MCSNM), although Alessandri is not clear whether it is separate. Much of MCSNM material was destroyed during the Second World War.

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 153100: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 07.12.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ionoscopiformes - Subortichthyidae
"Semionotus bellottii n. sp." = Allolepidotus bellottii, "Semionotus inermis n. sp." = Allolepidotus bellottii
"Semionotus bellottii n. sp." = Allolepidotus bellottii Rueppell 1857 ray-finned fish
"Semionotus inermis n. sp." = Allolepidotus bellottii Rueppell 1857 ray-finned fish
Specimen lost (Alessandri, 1910) but plaster cast in MCSNM (Milan)
Actinopteri
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
"Palaeoniscus curioni n. sp." = Pholidophorus curionii
"Palaeoniscus curioni n. sp." = Pholidophorus curionii Heckel 1849
sent to Heckel and perhaps now in NHMW (Alessandri, 1910)
 Perleidiformes - Perleididae
"Heterolepidotus serratus" = Perleidus altolepis
"Heterolepidotus serratus" = Perleidus altolepis Deecke 1889
Osteichthyes
  -
"Urolepis microlepidota" = Aneurolepis macroptera
"Urolepis microlepidota" = Aneurolepis macroptera Bellotti 1857