Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella: Bajocian - Bathonian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Globigerinidae
Globigerina spuriensis
unclassified
Conoglobigerina sp.
Cristellaria sp. Lamarck 1816
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
Reptilia - Metriorhynchidae
Neptunidraco ammoniticus n. gen., n. sp. Cau and Fanti 2011
1 individual
MGGC 8846/1UCC123a,b; MPPPL 35, 39
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Bositra buchi (Roemer 1836)
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Veneto County:Verona
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 10.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 20.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Bajocian - Bathonian Ammonoid zone: Parkinsoni
Age range of interval:170.90000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rosso Ammonitico Veronese
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Pseudonodular facies of the lowermost" part of the formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:hematitic,nodular,red lithified calcareous packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:rare
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 individuals
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:104801
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-02-10 07:14:42 Last modified:2011-02-09 14:14:42
Access level:the public Released:2011-02-10 07:14:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35074. A. Cau and F. Fanti. 2011. The oldest known metriorhynchid crocodylian from the Middle Jurassic of North-eastern Italy: Neptunidraco ammoniticus gen. et sp. nov. Gondwana Research 19:550-565 [M. Carrano/H. Street]