Fumane quarry (Cretaceous of Italy)

Where: Verona, Italy (45.6° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 12.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Helvetoglobotruncana helvetica foram zone, Scaglia Rossa Veneta Formation, Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Lithozone informally known as ‘Lastame’

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• pelagic sedimentation on a submerged plateau; open marine conditions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,

• Natural History Museum of Verona

Primary reference: A. Palci, M. W. Caldwell, and C. A. Papazzoni. 2013. A new genus and subfamily of mosasaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of northern Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3):599-612 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144507: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.05.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Romeosaurus fumanensis n. gen. n. sp.
Romeosaurus fumanensis n. gen. n. sp. Palci et al. 2013 mosasaur
NHMV-64108 - holotype (almost complete skull and about half of the vertebral column mostly exposed in ventral view)
Foraminifera
 Globigerinina - Hedbergellidae
Muricohedbergella simplex
 Globigerinaceae - Heterohelicidae
Heterohelix globulosa
Heterohelix globulosa Ehrenberg 1840
 Globigerinaceae - Globotruncanidae
"Praeglobotruncana stephani" = Globotruncana stephani, "Marginotruncana renzi" = Globotruncana renzi, "Marginotruncana coronata" = Globotruncana coronata, Marginotruncana pseudolinneiana
"Praeglobotruncana stephani" = Globotruncana stephani Gandolfi 1942
"Marginotruncana renzi" = Globotruncana renzi Thalmann 1942
"Marginotruncana coronata" = Globotruncana coronata Bolli 1953