Title
Marine reptiles from the Triassic of the Tre Venezie Area, Northeastern Italy
Title Variants
Alternative:
Triassic marine reptiles from Italy
Related Titles
Series:
Fieldiana, Geology, new ser., no. 44
Series:
Publication (Field Museum of Natural History), 1511
By
Rieppel, Olivier
Dalla Vecchia, Fabio Marco.
, joint author
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Chicago, Ill, Field Museum of Natural History, 2001
Notes
"Accepted March 15, 1999. Published January 31, 2001."
Ichthyosaurian and sauropterygian remains are described from Triassic deposits in the Tre Venezie area of northeastern Italy. The taxa recorded include Mixosaurus, Cymbospondylus, ?Shastasaurus, Placodus, ?Cyamodus, an as yet unnamed cyamodontoid placodont, Nothosaurus sp., and Nothosaurus cf. N. giganteus. The temporal distribution of these fossils ranges from the earliest Anisian to the middle Carnian. Placodus (from the lower upper Anisian Calcare di Recoaro Formation of Vallarsa and Recoaro) is recorded for the first time (on the basis of diagnostic material) from the Alpine facies of the Middle Triassic. Collectively, the sauropterygian fauna from the Tre Venezie area resembles that of the eastern Alpine Triassic more closely than that of the southwestern Alps. This may indicate two separate colonization events of the Alpine Triassic as intraplatform basins developed along the northwestern Tethyan margin.
Fieldiana series has been published as Geological Series by Field Columbian Museum (1895-1909) and Field Museum of Natural History (1909-1943), and as Fieldiana: Geology by Chicago Natural History Museum (1945-1966) and Field Museum of Natural History (1966-).
Subjects
Italy, Northern
,
Paleontology
,
Sauropterygia
,
Triassic
Call Number
QE1 .F4 n.s., no. 44
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.5305
NAL:
500 C432G new ser. no. 44
OCLC:
46894832
Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51502212
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