Where: Switzerland (45.9° N, 8.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 16.7° N, 34.3° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Grenzbitumenzone Member (Besano Formation), Illyrian (243.3 - 241.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite and lithified, black shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected in Sept. 30, 1957
Collection methods: quarrying,
• "Tessin collection" of the Palaontologisches Institut und Museum der Universitat Zurich (PIMUZ T. numbers), collected intensively from 1950-1968.
Primary reference: O. Rieppel. 1985. A second actinisian from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Kanton Tessin, Switzerland. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 78(1985):707-713 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141613: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 29.03.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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