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Notes on some Reptile finds from the Mesozoic of Scania

1962; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 84; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/11035896209449212

0016-786X

Per Ove Persson,

Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Abstract The material here described includes 1.) A Plesiosaurian pubis (fig. 1) from the Lower Campanian at Önnestad, N. E. Scania. The bone is with great probability referable to Scanisaurus cf. nazarowi (Bogolubov 1911).— This specimen is the first known Reptile remnant from Önnestad. 2.) A Plesiosaurian humerus (fig. 2) from the Lower Campanian of the island of Ivö, N. E. Scania. 3.) An incomplete Plesiosaurian vertebral centrum, a fragment of another centrum, and a fragment of a limb bone, all from the Upper Campanian of Hanaskog, N. E. Scania. The limb bone fragment (fig. 3) is a part of the >shaft> of a very large propodial bone, possibly belonging to Elasmosaurus? cf. gigas (Schröder 1885).— Plesiosaurian remains are rare in the Upper Campanian of Scania, and the bones here mentioned are the first ones known from Hanaskog. 4.) Mosasaurian tooth crown from the Upper Campanian of Hanaskog. The specimen is provisionally referred to Leiodon sp. 5.) A Plesiosaurian vertebral centrum from the glacial drift. Abbekås, S. Scania. — This specimen belongs to the old collection >Museum Nilssonianum> in the Palcontological Institute of Lund, and is therefore of a certain historical interest. 6.) Vertebral centra of Scanisaurus sp. from the clay of Åsen, N. E. Scania. The centra are the first animal fossils recorded from this locality.