Cava Tre Fontane, minerale 15, Tessin collection, Monte San Giorgio: Illyrian, Switzerland
collected 1937
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Acrodontidae
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Acrodus lateralis
Agassiz 1839
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| PIMUZ T3926 | ||||||||||
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= Acrodus georgii n. sp.
Mutter 1998
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Mutter 1998 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Coordinates: | 45.9° North, 8.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 7.0° North, 21.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
| Stage: | Anisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Illyrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 243.80000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Besano | Member: | Grenzbitumenzone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Layer 78 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination lithified carbonaceous dolomite |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | preferred |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1937 |
| Collection method comments: "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. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 132292 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | P. Vazquez, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-08-11 09:39:11 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-08-11 09:39:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42588. | O. Rieppel. 1981. The hybodontiform sharks from the Middle Triassic of Mte. San Giorgio, Switzerland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 161:324-353 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham] |
Secondary references:
| 47483 | R. J. Mutter. 1998. Zur systematischen Stellungh einiger Bezahnugsreste von Acrodus georgii sp. nov. (Selachii, Hybodontoidea) aus der Grenzbitumenzone (Mittlere Trias) des Monte San Giorgio (Kanton Tessin, Schweiz). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 91:513-519 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez] |