Balsberg: Early/Lower Campanian, Sweden
collected 1915-1931
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasaurus cf. hoffmanni
(Mantell 1829)
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1 element | |||||||||
| tooth | ||||||||||
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= Tylosaurus ivoensis
Russell 1967
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Lindgren and Siverson 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Mosasaurus ivoensis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Sweden | State/province: | Skane |
| Coordinates: | 56.1° North, 14.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.6° North, 14.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| 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: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 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. 2 | ||
| Database number: | 106406 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | H. Street, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-03-15 05:52:18 | Last modified: | 2021-03-22 07:46:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-03-15 05:52:18 |
| 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] | |
| 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] |