Where: Switzerland (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° N, 21.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grenzbitumenzone Member (Besano Formation), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite and lithified, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Carl Bender in ?-1930; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collection purchased by Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Tübingen (GPIT) from fossil trader H. Bender from Waiblingen between 1930 and 1931

Primary reference: M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 1997. Observations on Triassic ichthyosaurs. Part I: Structure of the palate and mode of tooth implantation in Mixosaurus cornalianus (Bassani, 1886). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 1997(12):717-732 [V. Fischer/V. Fischer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175949: authorized by Valentin Fischer, entered by Valentin Fischer on 20.01.2016

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