Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno: Alaunian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
Pholidophorus cephalus Kner 1866
recombined as Heterolepidotus cephalus
Semionotus curtulus? in Costa 1864
Notagogus incertus n. sp. Costa 1864
synonym of Heterolepidotus cephalus
Eugnathus brachilepis n. sp. Bassani 1895
Semionotus carinulatus in Costa 1860; Eugnathus cf. serratus and insignis in Bassani 1892
Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Giffonus deperditus n. gen., n. sp. Costa 1862
recombined as Saurichthys deperditus
Belonorhynchus sp. Bronn 1858
Palaeoniscus sp. in Costa 1856, 1862; Acipenser sp. in Costa 1862
Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
Urocomus picenus n. gen., n. sp. Costa 1862
recombined as Holophagus picenus
? Undina sp. Munster 1834
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Callipurbeckiidae
Colobodus ornatus (Agassiz 1832)
recombined as Paralepidotus ornatus
Lepidotus gigas in Costa 1853, 1860; Lepidotus sp., part of Semionotus curtulus, Semionotus sp., part of Urocomus picenus in Costa 1862
Lepidotus acutirostris n. sp. Costa 1853
synonym of Paralepidotus ornatus
Actinopteri - Dapediidae
Omalopleurus speciosus n. gen., n. sp. Costa 1862
synonym of Dapedius costai
Fam. Coccostei? in Costa, 1861
Actinopteri - Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae
Colobodus latus (Agassiz 1833)
Part of Semionotus curtulus, Lepidotus notopterus in Costa 1853; L. notopterus (part), L. acutirostris (part), S. curtulus (part) Lepidotus notopterus in Costa 1860; S. curtulus (part) in Costa 1862, 1864; L. acutirostris (part) in Costa 1864
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus pusillus Agassiz 1833
Small Semionotus curtulus (part) in Costa 1862
Pholidophorus latiusculus Agassiz 1832
Semionotus curtulus (part) in Costa 1862
Actinopteri - Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae
Peltopleurus humilis Kner 1867
Small Semionotus curtulus (part) in Costa 1862
Actinopteri - Peltopleuriformes - Thoracopteridae
Thoracopterus sp. Bronn 1858
Part of Urocomus picenus in Costa 1862; Pterygopterus sp. in Bassani, 1892
    = Thoracopterus magnificus Tintori and Sassi 1987
Tintori and Sassi 1992
recombined as Italopterus magnificus
MPUN M145
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy
Coordinates: 40.7° North, 14.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.9° North, 13.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Alaunian
Age range of interval:215.56000 - 212.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dolomia Principale
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Middle-upper part of the Dolomia Principale (Tintori et al., 1985)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified carbonaceous "limestone"
Lithology description: Bituminous beds
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Museo Paleontologico, University of Napoli
Metadata
Database number:153108
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-12-07 22:46:18 Last modified:2013-12-14 20:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2013-12-07 22:46:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

49433. F. Bassani. 1895. La ittiofauna della Dolomia Principale di Giffoni (Provincia di Salerno). Palaeontographica Italica 1:169-210 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

49334 F. Burri. 1956. Die Rhynchonelliden der Unteren Kreide (Valanginien-Barremien) im westschweizerischen Juragebirge. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 49:600-701 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]
49437 G. de Alessandri. 1920. Sopra alcuni avanzi di pesci Triasici della Lombardia. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali 59:85-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
37682 A. Tintori and D. Sassi. 1992. Thoracopterus Bronn (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii): a gliding fish from the Upper Triassic of Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(3):265-283 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]