Axeltorp: Early/Lower Campanian, Sweden
collected 1915-1931

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Tylosaurus ivoensis (Russell 1967)
Lindgren and Siverson 2002
recombined as Mosasaurus ivoensis
Clidastes propython Cope 1869
Lindgren and Siverson 2004 1 specimen
one axis vertebra from a very large individual (RM PZ R1752a–b)
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Scanisaurus cf. nazarowi (Bogolubov 1911)
15 specimens
nomen vanum belonging to Plesiosauria
1 tooth, 2 series of vertebrae, 9 disarticulated vertebrae, 3 propodials
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869
1 specimen
UM, R.p. 37
see common names

Geography
Country:Sweden State/province:Skane County:Nasum
Coordinates: 56.1° North, 14.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.6° North, 14.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:very coarse,shelly/skeletal "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:peritidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:few
Fragmentation:frequent
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1915-1931
Metadata
Also known as:Persson locality no. 1
Database number:106405
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:H. Street, P. Mannion, M. Carrano, J. Tennant
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-03-15 05:46:49 Last modified:2021-03-22 07:46:17
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-15 05:46:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35504. P. O. Persson. 1960. Reptiles from the Senonian (U Cret) of Scania (S Sweden). Arkiv for Mineralogi och Geologi 2(35):431-478 [M. Carrano/H. Street]

Secondary references:

44250 J. Lindgren and M. Siverson. 2002. Tylosaurus ivoensis: a giant mosasaur from the early Campanian of Sweden. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 93:73-93 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
38113 J. Lindgren and M. Siverson. 2004. The first record of the mosasaur Clidastes from Europe and its palaeogeographical implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(2):219-234 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
45317 A. M. Sørensen, F. Surlyk, and J. Lindgren. 2013. Food resources and habitat selection of a diverse vertebrate fauna from the upper lower Campanian of the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden. Cretaceous Research 42(1):85-92 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]