ammonites
Ca' del Frate, Viggiù, Monte San Giorgio (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (45.9° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kalkschiefer Member (Meride Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Uppermost Ladinian, middle Kalkschiefer zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: "Recent collections" in the 1990s

Primary reference: A. Tintori and S. Renesto. 1983. The Macrosemiidae (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Upper Triassic of Lombardy (N. Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 89(2):209-222 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116568: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2011, edited by Trisha Wolfe and Roger Benson

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