Also known as Monte Bolca

Where: Verona, Italy (45.6° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 10.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• Giusberti et al. 2014: The age of the fossiliferous beds is quite debated: Fabiani (1915) referred them to the “Auversian” (=Bartonian), whereas Malaroda (1954) proposed a middle-late Lutetian age. Finally, Barbieri & Medizza (1969) ascribed these problematic beds to the “Cuisian”. In the 19th century, various authors correlated the palm-bearing beds of Vegroni and Praticini with the Oligocene beds cropping out in various localities of the Vicenza Province (e.g., Massalongo, 1858a, b; Molon, 1867; Nicolis, 1884). The entire continental succession of Bolca is clearly in need of a modern stratigraphic revision.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Kotsakis, M. Delfino, and P. Piras. 2004. Italian Cenozoic crocodilians: taxa, timing and palaeobiogeographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 210:67-87 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144537: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.05.2013, edited by David Nicholson, Evangelos Vlachos and Mark Uhen

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