Ponte Giurino, phytosaur (Triassic of Italy)

Where: Lombardia, Italy (45.8° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° N, 13.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Argilliti di Riva di Solto Formation, Sevatian (212.0 - 205.6 Ma)

• earliest late Norian (Sevatian); overlies the Calcare di Zorzino

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1996

Collection methods: quarrying,

• MCSNB: Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "E. Caffi" Bergamo

Primary reference: S. Renesto. 2008. Remains of a juvenile phytosaur from the Late Triassic of northern Italy. Revisita Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 114(1):155-160 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106518: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 23.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
cf. Mystriosuchus sp. Fraas 1896 archosaur
MCSNB 11341, series of nine articulated caudal vertebrae