First occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur from the Turonian of the Central Apennines, Italy
During the Late Cretaceous mosasaurs experienced a very rapid diversification, and inhabited almost the whole globe, especially in ancient coastal marine environments and subtropical epicontinental seas. Occurrences of mosasaurs as both complete and fragmentary material are known from all continents...
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ftunivromairis:oai:iris.uniroma1.it:11573/1282480 2024-04-14T08:04:02+00:00 First occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur from the Turonian of the Central Apennines, Italy Romano, Marco Manni, Riccardo VENDITTI, ENRICO Nicosia, Umberto Cipriani, Angelo Romano, Marco Manni, Riccardo Venditti, Enrico Nicosia, Umberto Cipriani, Angelo 2019 http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1282480 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.001 eng eng Elsevier place:Oxford info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000461127800018 volume:96 firstpage:196 lastpage:209 numberofpages:14 journal:CRETACEOUS RESEARCH http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1282480 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.001 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85060349351 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess russellosaurina mosasaur tylosaurinae tethy Upper Cretaceou turonian Apennine carbonate platform info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2019 ftunivromairis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.001 2024-03-21T19:18:45Z During the Late Cretaceous mosasaurs experienced a very rapid diversification, and inhabited almost the whole globe, especially in ancient coastal marine environments and subtropical epicontinental seas. Occurrences of mosasaurs as both complete and fragmentary material are known from all continents, ranging from the Canadian Arctic to Antarctica and from northern Europe to southern Africa. Despite their frequent occurrence in Europe, mosasaur remains from Italy are quite rare. Considering the central position of the Italian peninsula in the Tethyan realm during the Late Cretaceous, and the extensive outcrop of shallow-marine carbonates deposited in that period, the extreme rarity of mosasaur material is really puzzling. Occurrences of mosasaurs in Italy are essentially limited to historical findings from the second half of the 19th century, with specimens from the Vittorio Veneto area in Northern Italy, Reggio Emilia (Castellarano municipality) and from the Argille Scagliose Complex of Northern Italy. In this contribution we present and describe the first evidence for a mosasaur from the Turonian of the Apennine Carbonate Platform, represented by an isolated tooth found within the Cretaceous limestones outcropping on the eastern slopes of Mt. Cima la Torre (Prossedi, Latina, Central Italy). The absence of evident granulae in the proximal portion of the crown, the just slightly posteriorly recurved tooth crown, the sub-oval cross section moderately compressed labiolingually, the different order of striae vanishing to disappear towards the upper part of the crown, and the presence of dense tertiary striae (especially at the base of the crown) allow us to refer the isolated tooth to the subfamily Tylosaurinae. The new specimen represents the first Tylosaurinae mosasaur from Italy; in addition, assuming a paleolatitude of 25N for the Apennine Carbonate Platform, the new finding also represents the southernmost occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur in the northern margin of the Mediterranean Tethys, throwing new ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Arctic Sapienza Università di Roma: CINECA IRIS Arctic Torre ENVELOPE(-59.729,-59.729,-62.413,-62.413) Cretaceous Research 96 196 209 |
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During the Late Cretaceous mosasaurs experienced a very rapid diversification, and inhabited almost the whole globe, especially in ancient coastal marine environments and subtropical epicontinental seas. Occurrences of mosasaurs as both complete and fragmentary material are known from all continents, ranging from the Canadian Arctic to Antarctica and from northern Europe to southern Africa. Despite their frequent occurrence in Europe, mosasaur remains from Italy are quite rare. Considering the central position of the Italian peninsula in the Tethyan realm during the Late Cretaceous, and the extensive outcrop of shallow-marine carbonates deposited in that period, the extreme rarity of mosasaur material is really puzzling. Occurrences of mosasaurs in Italy are essentially limited to historical findings from the second half of the 19th century, with specimens from the Vittorio Veneto area in Northern Italy, Reggio Emilia (Castellarano municipality) and from the Argille Scagliose Complex of Northern Italy. In this contribution we present and describe the first evidence for a mosasaur from the Turonian of the Apennine Carbonate Platform, represented by an isolated tooth found within the Cretaceous limestones outcropping on the eastern slopes of Mt. Cima la Torre (Prossedi, Latina, Central Italy). The absence of evident granulae in the proximal portion of the crown, the just slightly posteriorly recurved tooth crown, the sub-oval cross section moderately compressed labiolingually, the different order of striae vanishing to disappear towards the upper part of the crown, and the presence of dense tertiary striae (especially at the base of the crown) allow us to refer the isolated tooth to the subfamily Tylosaurinae. The new specimen represents the first Tylosaurinae mosasaur from Italy; in addition, assuming a paleolatitude of 25N for the Apennine Carbonate Platform, the new finding also represents the southernmost occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur in the northern margin of the Mediterranean Tethys, throwing new ... |
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First occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur from the Turonian of the Central Apennines, Italy |
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First occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur from the Turonian of the Central Apennines, Italy |
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First occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur from the Turonian of the Central Apennines, Italy |
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First occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur from the Turonian of the Central Apennines, Italy |
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First occurrence of a Tylosaurinae mosasaur from the Turonian of the Central Apennines, Italy |
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first occurrence of a tylosaurinae mosasaur from the turonian of the central apennines, italy |
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