Where: Veneto, Italy (45.5° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 20.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Parkinsoni ammonoid zone, Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation, Bajocian to Bajocian (170.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• "Pseudonodular facies of the lowermost" part of the formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, hematitic, nodular, red, calcareous packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Cau and F. Fanti. 2011. The oldest known metriorhynchid crocodylian from the Middle Jurassic of North-eastern Italy: Neptunidraco ammoniticus gen. et sp. nov. Gondwana Research 19:550-565 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 104801: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 10.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Cristellaria sp. Lamarck 1816 | |
Nodosariata | |
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bositra buchi Roemer 1836 oyster | |
Reptilia | |
Neptunidraco ammoniticus n. gen. n. sp.
Neptunidraco ammoniticus n. gen. n. sp. Cau and Fanti 2011 marine crocodile MGGC 8846/1UCC123a,b; MPPPL 35, 39
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