Valporina, minerale 8, Tessin collection, Monte San Giorgio: Illyrian, Switzerland
collected 1933

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus sp. Agassiz 1834
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:outcrop
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:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified dolomite
Secondary lithology:black lithified "shale"
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1933
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
Also known as:Val Porina
Database number:139863
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-19 07:15:58 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2013-02-19 07:15:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
45038. E. Kuhn. 1945. Über Acrodus-Funde aus dem Grenzbitumen-horizont der anisischen Stufe der Trias des Monte San Giorgio (Kt. Tessin). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 48:662-673 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]