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
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
Reptilia | |
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)
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Foraminifera | |
Heterohelix globulosa Ehrenberg 1840 | |
"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
Marginotruncana pseudolinneiana Pessagno 1967 |