ITALY

PROVINCE OF SALERNO

SAN VALENTINO

EITHER ARGILLE DI VIANO FORMATION (EARLY PALEOCENE-MIDDLE EOCENE, BUT CONTAINING REWORKED BOULDERS COMING FROM THE FLYSCH DI MONTE CASSIO FORMATION, LATE CAMPANIAN-LATE MAASTRICHTIAN) OR FROM THE ARGILLE VARICOLORI DI CASSIO FORMATION (LATE CENOMANIAN-LATE CAMPANIAN)

LATE CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

INFRACLASS: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: LEPIDOSAUROMORPHA BENTON, 1983

SUBLEGION: LEPIDOSAURIA HAECKEL, 1866 (DUMERIL & BIBRON, 1839)

MAGNORDER: SQUAMATA, OPPEL, 1811

SUPERORDER: LACERTILIA OWEN, 1842

GRANDORDER: SCINCOGEKKONOMORPHA SUKHANOV, 1961

MICRORDER: SCINCOMORPHA CAMP, 1923

ORDER: ANGUIMORPHA FURBRINGER, 1900

SUBORDER: DIPLOGLOSSA COPE, 1864

INFRAORDER: THECAGLOSSA COPE, 1890

PARVORDER: MONSTERSAURIA NORELL & GAO, 1977

Superfamily: VARANOIDEA Gray, 1827 (sensu Camp, 1923)

Family: MOSASAURIDAE Gervais, 1853

Infrafamily: NATANIA

Subfamily: MOSASAURINAE Gervais, 1853 (sensu Williston, 1897)

Tribe: MOSASAURINI Gervais, 1853 (sensu Russell, 1967)

Mosasaurus cf. hoffmanni

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SOUTHERN ITALY

SALENTO PENINSULA

APULIA

LECCE

A SMALL OUCROP OUTSIDE THE TOWN OF NARDO

CONIACIAN-SANTONIAN STAGE

LOWER SENONIAN SUBEPOCH

MIDDLE GULF EPOCH-CAMPANIAN-MAASTRICHTAIN STAGE

UPPER SENONIAN SUBEPOCH

LATE GULF EPOCH

LATE CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

INFRACLASS: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: LEPIDOSAUROMORPHA BENTON, 1983

SUBLEGION: LEPIDOSAURIA HAECKEL, 1866 (DUMERIL & BIBRON, 1839)

MAGNORDER: SQUAMATA, OPPEL, 1811

SUPERORDER: LACERTILIA OWEN, 1842

GRANDORDER: SCINCOGEKKONOMORPHA SUKHANOV, 1961

MICRORDER: SCINCOMORPHA CAMP, 1923

ORDER: ANGUIMORPHA FURBRINGER, 1900

SUBORDER: DIPLOGLOSSA COPE, 1864

INFRAORDER: THECAGLOSSA COPE, 1890

PARVORDER: MONSTERSAURIA NORELL & GAO, 1977

Superfamily: VARANOIDEA Gray, 1827 (sensu Camp, 1923)

Family: MOSASAURIDAE Gervais, 1853

Subfamily: DOLICHOSAURIDAE Gervais, 1852

Genus: nova