Point 902, Monte San Giorgio, Bed 77: 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 georgii Mutter 1998
T4927
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland State/province:Ticino
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 Ammonoid zone: Secedensis
Age range of interval:243.80000 - 242.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Besano Member:Grenzbitumenzone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Or layer 76?
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: dolomite
Environment:marine indet.
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:44618
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-09-15 15:58:16 Last modified:2022-06-17 20:08:29
Access level:the public Released:2004-09-15 15:58:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]