Genus: Neptunidraco CAU & FANTI, 2011
Etymology: "Neptune's Dragon from the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation".
Species: ammoniticus CAU & FANTI, 2011
Etymology: "Neptune's Dragon from the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation".
= 'Portomaggiore crocodile' AS PER YOUNG, BRUSATTE, RUTA & DE ANDRADE,
2010
= Crocodrillo Di Portomaggiore LEONARDI, 1856
= ?Metriorhynchus KOTSAKIS & NICOSIA 1980
= Metriorhynchus brachyrhynchus DESLONGCHAMPS, 1867 sensu VIGNAUD, 1995
= Metriorhynchus sp BIZZARNI, 1996
Holotype: MGGc 8846/1UCC123b, MGGC 8846/1UCC123a, MPPPL 35, MMPPL 39
Locality: Exacat locality is unkown. However data collected for this study indicate that the original limestone block was quarried near Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Verona Province, Italy.
Horizon: Lowermost Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation.
Biostratigraphy: Globigerina supriensis- and Bositra buchi-dominated microfacies.
Age: Upper Bajocian Stage, Lowermiddle Dogger Epoch- lowermost Bathonian Stage, upper middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.
Material: Partial skull (maxillae, nasals, prefrontals, frontals, parietals, postorbitals and squamosals), mandible (dentaries, splenials, surangulars and articulars), several teeth and seven cranial presacral vertebrae.