Carcoselle Quarry (Possagno) (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Treviso, Italy (45.9° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 13.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Scaglia Variegata Alpina Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• From the Bonarelli Level

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, carbonaceous shale

• Alternating grey to black bituminous shales and bituminous marls

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia

Primary reference: J. Amalfitano, L. Giusberti, E. Fornaciari and G. Carnevale. 2020. Upper Cenomanian fishes from the Bonarelli level (OAE2) of northeastern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 126:261-314 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214716: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.10.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Paranursallia gutturosa Arambourg 1954
 Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
 Tselfatiiformes - Plethodidae
Tselfatia formosa Arambourg 1943
 Aulopiformes - Ichthyotringidae
Ichthyotringa africana Arambourg 1954
 Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
Belonostomus sp. Agassiz 1834
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus decurrens Agassiz 1838 elasmobranch
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark