A new platypterygiine ichthyosaur rostrum from the Lower Cretaceous of the Lessini Mountains (Northern Italy)

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: Fornaciari, Beatrice, Maxwell, Erin, Papazzoni, Cesare Andrea, Zorzin, Roberto, FORNACIARI, ELIANA
• Other Authors: Fornaciari, Eliana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academic Press 2017
• Subjects: Albian; Calcareous nannofossil; Ichthyosauria; Planktonic foraminifera; Veneto; Paleontology; Gombola
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3234012; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2016.11.017; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01956671/42

An incomplete rostrum of a platypterygiine ichthyosaur (IGVR 94574) has recently been found near Tregnago (Verona, Italy), in the Lessini Mts. This is the first Cretaceous ichthyosaurian fossil found in Italy outside the northern Apennines, where fragmentary remains have been recovered since the 19t...