Polino area (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Italy (42.6° N, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 19.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rosso Ammonitico Formation, Bifrons (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular, red marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: (Museo Universitario di Scienze della Terra), Sapienza University of Rome

Primary reference: M. Romano, P. Citton, A. Cipriani and S. Fabbi. 2018. First report of hybodont shark from the Toarcian Rosso Ammonitico Formation of Umbria-Marche Apennine (Polino area, Terni, Central Italy). Italian Journal of Geosciences 137:151-159 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191986: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.02.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Asteracanthus sp. Agassiz 1836 elasmobranch
MUST NS 169.16, 169.17