Species: samniticus SASSO & SIGNORE, 1998
Etymology: Latin, samniticus, of Samnium, ancient name of the region including
the Benevento Province.
= New genus CAPONE, 1993/LEONARDI & TERUZZI, 1993
Holotype: Soprintendeza Archeologica, Salerno.
Locality: Ciro, Pietraroja (Pietraolia), Benvenento Province , Italy.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.
Material: Skull and skeleton missing feet and tip of tail of a juvenile.
Note: Intestine and trachea? impressions. Has a furcula.
Note: Stomach contents; A teleostian fish fragments, clupeomorph-like fish, lepidosaurian reptile, posterior leg and part of the vertebral colun of another reptile, possibly a lizard and smlaler vertebrates of uncertain affinities.