Where: Gorizia, Italy (45.9° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 14.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Calcari di Monte San Michele Formation, Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)
• Upper part of the ‘calcari di Aurisina’
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Poyato-Ariza. 2010. Polazzodus, gen. nov., A New Pycnodont Fish from the Late Cretaceous of Northeastern Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):650-664 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 103811: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.02.2011, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Equisetopsida | |
Frenelopsis sp. Schenk 1869
Pagiophyllum sp. Heer 1881 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Ginkgoales indet. Goroschankin 1904 | |
Angiospermae | |
Pinopsida | |
cf. Sphenolepis sp. Agassiz 1843 | |
Cunninghamites cf. elegans Corda 1846 yew | |
Reptilia | |
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
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Actinopteri | |
Anguilliformes indet. Greenwood et al. 1966 eel | |
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835 | |
Rhynchodercetis sp. Arambourg 1943 | |
Beryciformes indet. Patterson 1964
Clupeiformes indet. Bleeker 1859 | |
Polazzodus coronatus n. gen. n. sp.
Polazzodus coronatus n. gen. n. sp. Poyato-Ariza 2010 |