Monte Cornizzolo (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Lombardy, Italy (45.8° N, 9.3° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcare di Sogno Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

• central area of the Lombardian Basin
• finely laminated blackish shales

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Delfino and C. Dal Sasso. 2006. Marine reptiles (Thalattosuchia) from the Early Jurassic of Lombardy (northern Italy). Geobios 39:346-354 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90436: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Coleiidae
Proeryon hartmanni Von Meyer 1835 decapod
Reptilia
 Loricata -
cf. Pelagosaurus sp. Bronn 1841 marine crocodile
Actinopteri
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Pachycormus sp. Agassiz 1833
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Leptolepis sp. Agassiz 1832
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus sp. Agassiz 1832