Where: Lombardia, Italy (45.7° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 13.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zorzino Limestone Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• material from a sequence of 3 levels, each bearing bones. Unclear which fossils are from which layers. Uppermost part of the Zorzino Limestones (Calcare di Zorzino) of latest Alaunian age (dated by palynomorphs)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; dolomitic, argillaceous, carbonaceous limestone and marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected in 1978-1985

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Nosotti 1986 reports a single Psephoderma alpinum tooth (ID no. V467) from "Endenna (Zogno, Bergamo), Calcare di Zorzino, Norico superiore" in the collections of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.

Primary reference: G. Pinna and S. Nosotti. 1989. Anatomia, morfologia funzionale e paleoecologia del rettile placodonte Psephoderma alpiunum Meyer, 1858. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Milano 25(2):1-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36377: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.01.2004, edited by Kaitlin Maguire, Richard Butler and Bethany Allen

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