Where: Italy (44.7° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 12.1° E)
When: Argille di Viano Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• Argille di Viano Formation (early Palaeocene–middle Eocene, but containing reworked boulders coming from the Flysch diMonte Cassio Formation, late
•Campanian–late Maastrichtian) or from the Argille Varicolori di Cassio Formation (late Cenomanian–late Campanian).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: calcareous packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Paleontology Museum of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Primary reference: A. Palci, M. W. Caldwell, C. A. Papazzoni and E. Forniciari. 2014. Mosasaurine mosasaurs (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from northern Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(3):549-559 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 156035: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 07.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Mosasaurus cf. hoffmanni" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii
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