Where: Switzerland (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 21.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grenzbitumenzone Member (Besano Formation), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by B. Peyer, PIMUZ

Collection methods: quarrying,

• "Tessin collection" of the Palaontologisches Institut und Museum der Universitat Zurich (PIMUZ T. numbers), begun in 1924 by Berhard Peyer and collected through at least 1968. Ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus collected in 1927.

Primary reference: P. M. Sander. 1989. The large ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus buchseri, sp. nov. from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland), with a survey of the genus in Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(2):163-173 [M. Carrano/H. Street/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 98104: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 20.09.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham and Priscilla Vazquez

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