Where: Veneto, Italy (45.9° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 20.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lithozone 5 Member (Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation), Late/Upper Callovian to Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 155.7 Ma)

• Middle Rosso Ammonitico Veronese (upper Callovian-middle Oxfordian)

•The fossil reptile described herein was collected from the upper cherty deposits of the MRAV (Lithozone 5 of Martire et al. 2006; Fig. 1B), which ranges in age from the uppermost Callovian to the middle Oxfordian

Environment/lithology: nodular, calcareous, cherty/siliceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

• The relative articulation of preserved elements in the fossil indicates that the carcass suffered minimal to moderate disturbance and was buried in a low-energy environment

Collected in the 1980s

Collection methods: quarrying,

• MPPL, Museo Paleontologico e della Preistoria “Pietro Leonardi”, Ferrara, Italy.

Primary reference: A. Cau and F. Fanti. 2014. A pliosaurid (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation of Italy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138979: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 05.02.2013, edited by Graeme Lloyd

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