Point 902, Monte San Giorgio, Bed 137: Illyrian, Switzerland
collected by B. Peyer, PIMUZ 1950-1968

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus lateralis Agassiz 1839
1 specimen
PIMUZ T3816
    = Acrodus georgii Mutter 1998
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:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Illyrian
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 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
Collectors:B. Peyer, PIMUZ Collection dates:1950-1968
Collection method comments: "Tessin collection" of the Palaontologisches Institut und Museum der Universitat Zurich (PIMUZ T. numbers), collected intensively from 1950-1968.
Metadata
Database number:147351
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-07-08 08:52:59 Last modified:2022-06-17 20:09:52
Access level:the public Released:2013-07-08 08:52:59
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]