Where: Trapani, Italy (38.0° N, 13.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hybla Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Aptian NC6 Zone.

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•Assipetra infracretacea (Thierstein, 1973), Assipetra infracretacea larsonii (Tremolada and Erba, 2002), Rucinolithus terebrodentarius (Applegate et al., 1987; Tremolada and Erba, 2002), Rucinolithus terebrodentarius youngii (Tremolada and Erba, 2002), Nannoconus steinmanni steinmanni (Kamptner, 1931), Nannoconus steinmanni minor (Nannoconus truittii, Bronn, 1955), Nannoconus sp. (Kamptner, 1931), Helenea chiastia (Worsley, 1971), Cyclagelosphaera margerelii (No€el, 1965), Zeughrabdotus embergeri (No€el, 1958) and Watznaueria spp.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Giacomo Sicali

• Donated to the Natural History Museum in Comiso (Ragusa, Sicily),

Primary reference: A. A. Chiarenza, D. Foffa, M. T. Young, G. Insacco, A. Cau, G. Carnevale, and R. Catanzariti. 2015. The youngest record of metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs, with implications for the extinction of Thalattosuchia. Cretaceous Research 56:608-616 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172392: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 07.08.2015

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