San Valentino (Cretaceous to of Italy)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
"Mosasaurus cf. hoffmanni" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii
"Mosasaurus cf. hoffmanni" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii Mantell 1829 mosasaur
IPUM 30200, skull