Hvar Island (Novak collection) (Cretaceous of Croatia)

Also known as Lesina

Where: Croatia (43.2° N, 16.7° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 15.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Starigrad Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Platy limestone member. Upper Cenomanian according to Diedrich et al. (2011).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

• platy limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by I. Novak

• Repository: collection of I. Novak (Zadar, Croatia)

Primary reference: D. Gorjanović-Kramberger. 1895. Fosilne ribe Komena, Mrzleka, Hvara i M. Libanona uz dodatak o Oligocenskim ribama Tüffera, Zagora i Trifalja. Djela Jugoslavenske Akademije Znanosti i Umjetnosti 16:1-67 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132604: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.08.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Original paper describing material:

•Gorjanovic-Kramberger, C. 1892. Aigialosaurus, eine neue Eidechse aus die Kreideschiefern der Insel Lesina mit Rücksicht auf die bereits beschriebenen Lacertiden von Comen und Lesina. Glasnik huvatskoga naravoslovnoga drustva (Societas historico-naturalis croatica) u Zagrebu 7: 74–106.

Reptilia
 Squamata - Aigialosauridae
"Mesoleptos" cf. zendrinii Cornalia and Chiozza 1852 squamates
Specimen lost (several articulated vertebrae with ribs, and fragments of some other elements)
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Coelodus mesorachis Heckel 1856
 Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
Belonostomus dalmaticus n. sp. Gorjanović-Kramberger 1895
Belonostomus novaki n. sp. Gorjanović-Kramberger 1895
 Acanthomorphata - Aipichthyidae
Aipichthys pretiosus Steindachner 1860