Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella (Jurassic to of Italy)

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
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 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra buchi Roemer 1836 oyster
Reptilia
 Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
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