Where: Switzerland (46.7° N, 9.8° E: paleocoordinates 9.1° N, 21.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Prosanto Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)
• Bed 22: upper part of the Prosanto Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by H. Furrer in 1989
Collection methods: mechanical
• Starting in 1989, a large number of new Prosanto Formation fossils have been discovered in systematic excavations by Heinz Furrer and his team (Zürich University). Repository: PIMUZ.
Primary reference: G. Arratia and A. Herzog. 2007. A New Halecomorph Fish from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland and its Systematic Implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):838-849 [M. Clapham/T. Wolfe]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117530: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Trisha Wolfe on 23.09.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez, Matthew Clapham, Bethany Allen and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Ducanichthys aculeatus n. gen. n. sp.2
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Osteichthyes | |
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Prosantichthys buergini n. gen. n. sp.
Prosantichthys buergini n. gen. n. sp. Arratia and Herzog 2007 ray-finned fish | |
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Reptilia | |
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Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi7 Nosotti and Rieppel 2003 archosauromorph PIMUZ A/III 4380, almost complete juvenile skeleton
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