Båstad (Cretaceous of Sweden)

Also known as Persson locality no. 6

Where: Skane, Sweden (56.4° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 13.1° 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 106409: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 15.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Plioplatecarpus sp. Dollo 1882 mosasaur
teeth, LM, LO 3883 t
Leiodon cf. anceps Owen 1841 mosasaur
teeth (LM, LO 3884 t–3890 t) + 1 in private coll. Mr. L. Larsson
 Plesiosauria -
"Scanisaurus cf. nazarowi" = Cimoliosaurus nazarowi
"Scanisaurus cf. nazarowi" = Cimoliosaurus nazarowi Bogolubov 1911 plesiosaur
cervical vertebra