Where: Switzerland (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 21.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• 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 dolomite and lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Carl Bender in ?-1930; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collection purchased by Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Tübingen (GPIT) from fossil trader H. Bender from Waiblingen between 1930 and 1931
Primary reference: M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 1997. Observations on Triassic ichthyosaurs. Part I: Structure of the palate and mode of tooth implantation in Mixosaurus cornalianus (Bassani, 1886). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 1997(12):717-732 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175949: authorized by Valentin Fischer, entered by Valentin Fischer on 20.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Mixosaurus cornalianus Bassani 1886 ichthyosaur Several hundreds of this species are known from Monte San Giorgio and Besano
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