Genus: '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: Slab and counter-slab housed in the Department of Earth Sciences of Bologna University and the Museum of Palaeontology and Prehistory of Ferrara University.
Locality: Unknown, possibly from Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Verona Province, Italy.
Horizon: Rosso Ammonitic Formatioin.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle or Upper Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Early Late Jurassic.
Material: Incomplete skull and mandible preserved in limestone.