Around the middle of the nineteenth century, Italian palaeontologists began to investigate
fossils of fishes and reptiles from the Middle Triassic outcrops in the vicinity of Monte San …

Background† Saurichthyiformes were a successful group of latest Permian–Middle Jurassic
predatory actinopterygian fishes and constituted important, widely-distributed components of …

Abstract Marine conservation deposits ('Konservat-Lagerstätten') are characterized by their
mode of fossil preservation, faunal composition and sedimentary facies. Here, we review …

Only a few Swiss fossil localities are known globally and of which, the UNESCO World
Heritage Site Monte San Giorgio, which extends from Switzerland into Italy, is the most …

Cannibalism (conspecific predation) is a surprisingly common and widespread behavior in
modern ecosystems; however, direct evidence for cannibalism is strongly lacking in the …

Abstract Middle Triassic sediments at Monte San Giorgio, a UNESCO heritage site on the
Switzerland-Italy border, have famously sourced well-preserved vertebrate fossils …

The Early–Middle Triassic actinopterygian genus Pteronisculus (White, 1933) is part of the
Triassic Early Fish Fauna (TEFF), a cosmopolitan group of taxa that thrived in the aftermath …

Starting in the Late Permian, the “Triassic osteichthyan revolution” gave rise to several new
morphotypes of actinopterygians, including the iconic barracuda-shaped predator …

A new species of the actinopterygian fish genus Saurichthys is described on the basis of
several specimens from the Sceltrich beds (Meride Limestone Formation) of the UNESCO …