Where: Italy (44.9° N, 9.3° E: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 12.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Argille Varicolori Formation, Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 72.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; green, red, silty, calcareous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: calcarreous nannofossils collected around the bone were used for dating
Primary reference: S. Renesto. 1993. A Cretaceous plesiosaur remain (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Argille Varicolori of Varzi (Pavia, Lombardy, Northern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 99(1):101-106 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36448: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 29.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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