Axeltorp (Cretaceous of Sweden)

Also known as Persson locality no. 1

Where: Skane, Sweden (56.1° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 14.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1915-1931

Primary reference: P. O. Persson. 1960. Reptiles from the Senonian (U Cret) of Scania (S Sweden). Arkiv for Mineralogi och Geologi 2(35):431-478 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 106405: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 15.03.2011, edited by Philip Mannion, Jonathan Tennant and Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
UM, R.p. 37
 Plesiosauria -
"Scanisaurus cf. nazarowi" = Cimoliosaurus nazarowi
"Scanisaurus cf. nazarowi" = Cimoliosaurus nazarowi Bogolubov 1911 plesiosaur
1 tooth, 2 series of vertebrae, 9 disarticulated vertebrae, 3 propodials
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Tylosaurus ivoensis1 Russell 1967 mosasaur
Clidastes propython2 Cope 1869 mosasaur
one axis vertebra from a very large individual (RM PZ R1752a–b)