S. Anna di Alfaedo quarries (concavata Zone) (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Also known as Sant'Anna di Alfaedo

Where: Verona, Italy (45.6° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dicarinella concavata foram zone, Scaglia Rossa Veneta Formation, Early/Lower Coniacian to Early/Lower Coniacian (89.3 - 83.5 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 144508: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.05.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Globigerinaceae - Heterohelicidae
Heterohelix globulosa Ehrenberg 1840
 Globigerinaceae - Globotruncanidae
"Marginotruncana coronata" = Globotruncana coronata Bolli 1953
"Marginotruncana renzi" = Globotruncana renzi Thalmann 1942
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Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Romeosaurus fumanensis Palci et al. 2013 mosasaur
MPPS-42224, MPPS-45301, and MPPS- 45299