Also known as Megalancosaurus holotype
Where: Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (46.4° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.5° N, 16.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dolomia di Forni Formation, Alaunian to Alaunian (215.6 - 205.6 Ma)
• Dolmomia di Forni "spans the Alaunian 2 - Sevatian 1 interval"; middle-late Norian
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); brown, gray, yellow dolomite
•"The Dolomia di Forni is composed mainly of dark, often cherty, well-bedded dolostone that is frequently thinly laminated and sometimes slumped. Thicker laminae are graded and represent distal turbidites...the basinal facies preserving the tetrapod remains are composed mainly of distal turbidites and carbonate mud deposited by fallout"
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Sergio Spizzamiglio in 1980
Primary reference: M. Calzavara, G. Muscio, and R. Wild. 1981. Megalancosaurus preonensis n. g., n. sp., a new reptile from the Norian of Friuli, Italy. Gortania - Atti del Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale 2:49-64 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83472: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 21.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Megalancosaurus preonensis n. gen. n. sp.
Megalancosaurus preonensis n. gen. n. sp. Calzavara et al. 1981 diapsid MFSN 1769 (holotype), partial skeleton including skull
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