Sent: 15/4/2016
Arrived: 4/5/2016
Monte San Giorgio
UNESCO site
Date of Insscription: 2003
Brief synthesis
The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain of Monte San Giorgio
beside Lake Lugano is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from
the Triassic Period (245 – 230 million years ago). The sequence records life in
a tropical lagoon environment, sheltered and partially separated from the open
sea by an offshore reef. Diverse marine life flourished within this lagoon,
including reptiles, fish, bivalves, ammonites, echinoderms and crustaceans.
Because the lagoon was near to land, the fossil remains also include some
land-based fossils including reptiles, insects and plants. The result is a
fossil resource of great richness.
Criterion (viii):
Monte San Giorgio is the single best known
record of marine life in the Triassic period, and records important remains of
life on land as well. The property has produced diverse and numerous fossils,
many of which show exceptional completeness and detailed preservation. The long
history of study of the property and the disciplined management of the resource
have created a well documented and catalogued body of specimens of exceptional
quality, and are the basis for a rich associated geological literature. As a
result, Monte San Giorgio provides the principal point of reference, relevant
to future discoveries of marine Triassic remains throughout the world.
Source: unesco.org
Thank you Ania!
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