PBDB Collection

Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (40.7° N, 14.9° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° N, 13.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dolomia Principale Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• Middle-upper part of the Dolomia Principale (Tintori et al., 1985)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Bituminous beds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Paleontologico, University of Napoli

Primary reference: F. Bassani. 1895. La ittiofauna della Dolomia Principale di Giffoni (Provincia di Salerno). Palaeontographica Italica 1:169-210 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153108: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 07.12.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Coelacanthimorpha
Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae	? Undina sp., "Urocomus picenus n. gen. n. sp." = Holophagus picenus ? Undina sp. Munster 1834 coelacanth "Urocomus picenus n. gen. n. sp." = Holophagus picenus Costa 1862 coelacanth
Osteichthyes
Ionoscopiformes - Furidae	"Pholidophorus cephalus" = Heterolepidotus cephalus, "Notagogus incertus n. sp." = Heterolepidotus cephalus, Eugnathus brachilepis n. sp. "Pholidophorus cephalus" = Heterolepidotus cephalus Kner 1866 ray-finned fish Semionotus curtulus? in Costa 1864 "Notagogus incertus n. sp." = Heterolepidotus cephalus Kner 1866 ray-finned fish Eugnathus brachilepis n. sp. Bassani 1895 ray-finned fish Semionotus carinulatus in Costa 1860; Eugnathus cf. serratus and insignis in Bassani 1892
Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae	"Giffonus deperditus n. gen. n. sp." = Saurichthys deperditus, Belonorhynchus sp. "Giffonus deperditus n. gen. n. sp." = Saurichthys deperditus Costa 1862 ray-finned fish Belonorhynchus sp. Bronn 1858 ray-finned fish Palaeoniscus sp. in Costa 1856, 1862; Acipenser sp. in Costa 1862
Actinopteri
Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae	Pholidophorus latiusculus, Pholidophorus pusillus Pholidophorus latiusculus Agassiz 1832 Semionotus curtulus (part) in Costa 1862 Pholidophorus pusillus Agassiz 1833 Small Semionotus curtulus (part) in Costa 1862
Holostei - Dapediidae	"Omalopleurus speciosus n. gen. n. sp." = Dapedius costai "Omalopleurus speciosus n. gen. n. sp." = Dapedius costai Bassani 1892 Fam. Coccostei? in Costa, 1861
Semionotiformes - Callipurbeckiidae	"Colobodus ornatus" = Paralepidotus ornatus, "Lepidotus acutirostris n. sp." = Paralepidotus ornatus "Colobodus ornatus" = Paralepidotus ornatus Agassiz 1832 Lepidotus gigas in Costa 1853, 1860; Lepidotus sp., part of Semionotus curtulus, Semionotus sp., part of Urocomus picenus in Costa 1862 "Lepidotus acutirostris n. sp." = Paralepidotus ornatus Agassiz 1832
Peltopleuriformes - Thoracopteridae	"Thoracopterus magnificus" = Italopterus magnificus "Thoracopterus magnificus" = Italopterus magnificus Tintori and Sassi 1987 Part of Urocomus picenus in Costa 1862; Pterygopterus sp. in Bassani, 1892
Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae	Peltopleurus humilis Peltopleurus humilis Kner 1867 Small Semionotus curtulus (part) in Costa 1862
Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae	Colobodus latus Colobodus latus Agassiz 1833 Part of Semionotus curtulus, Lepidotus notopterus in Costa 1853; L. notopterus (part), L. acutirostris (part), S. curtulus (part) Lepidotus notopterus in Costa 1860; S. curtulus (part) in Costa 1862, 1864; L. acutirostris (part) in Costa 1864