PBDB Collection

Val Porina, Tessin collection, Monte San Giorgio (Triassic of Switzerland)

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 (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 B. Peyer, PIMUZ

Collection methods: quarrying,

• "Tessin collection" of the Palaontologisches Institut und Museum der Universitat Zurich (PIMUZ T. numbers), begun in 1924 by Berhard Peyer and collected through at least 1968.

Primary reference: T. Bürgin. 1992. Basal ray-finned fishes (Osteichthyes; Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Tessin, Switzerland). Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 114:1-164 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122058: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
Luganoiiformes - Luganoiidae	Luganoia lepidosteoides Luganoia lepidosteoides Brough 1939 ray-finned fish
Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae	Ptycholepis priscus, Ptycholepis barboi, Ptycholepis schaefferi n. sp. Ptycholepis priscus Bürgin 1992 ray-finned fish Ptycholepis barboi Bassani 1886 ray-finned fish Ptycholepis schaefferi n. sp. Bürgin 1992 ray-finned fish
Pholidopleuriformes - Pholidopleuridae	Pholidopleurus sp., Pholidopleurus ticinensis n. sp. Pholidopleurus sp. Bronn 1858 ray-finned fish Pholidopleurus ticinensis n. sp. Bürgin 1992 ray-finned fish Holotype from Cava 31
Pholidopleuriformes -	Gracilignathichthys microlepis Gracilignathichthys microlepis Bürgin 1992 ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
Louwoichthyiformes - Louwoichthyidae	Ctenognathichthys bellottii Ctenognathichthys bellottii de Alessandri 1910
Louwoichthyiformes - Peltoperleididae	Peltoperleidus macrodontus n. sp., Peltoperleidus bellipinnis Peltoperleidus macrodontus n. sp. Bürgin 1992 Holotype from Cava 31 Peltoperleidus bellipinnis Bürgin 1992
Peltopleuriformes - Wushaichthyidae	Peripeltopleurus vexillipinnis, Peripeltopleurus cf. vexillipinnis, Peripeltopleurus hypsisomus n. sp., Peripeltopleurus cf. hypsisomus Peripeltopleurus vexillipinnis Bürgin 1992 Peripeltopleurus cf. vexillipinnis Bürgin 1992 Peripeltopleurus hypsisomus n. sp. Bürgin 1992 Holotype from Cava 31 Peripeltopleurus cf. hypsisomus Bürgin 1992
Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae	Cephaloxenus macropterus, Peltopleurus nothocephalus, Peltopleurus cf. nothocephalus, Peltopleurus lissocephalus, Platysiagum minus Cephaloxenus macropterus Brough 1939 Peltopleurus nothocephalus Bürgin 1992 Peltopleurus cf. nothocephalus Bürgin 1992 Peltopleurus lissocephalus Brough 1939 Platysiagum minus Brough 1939
Perleidiformes - Perleididae	Aetheodontus besanensis, Meridensia meridensis Aetheodontus besanensis Brough 1939 Meridensia meridensis de Alessandri 1910
Perleidiformes - Habroichthyidae	Habroichthys sp., Habroichthys minimus, Habroichthys griffithi Habroichthys sp. Brough 1939 Habroichthys minimus Brough 1939 Habroichthys griffithi Bürgin 1992