Balsvik (Cretaceous of Sweden)

Also known as Persson locality no. 3

Where: Skane, Sweden (56.1° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 14.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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 106407: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 15.03.2011, edited by Jonathan Tennant and Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Tylosaurus ivoensis3, "Dollosaurus sp." = Prognathodon2
Tylosaurus ivoensis3 Russell 1967 mosasaur
tooth
"Dollosaurus sp." = Prognathodon2 Dollo 1889 mosasaur
One tooth crown
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
vertebrae, S.G.U. Aa 103 Nos. 1–5, 10
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Anomoeodus sp.1 Forir 1887
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
cf. Enchodus sp.1 Agassiz 1835