Also known as De Lucia quarry, Murgia, Cava EcoSpi

Where: Apulia, Italy (40.8° N, 16.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.0° N, 15.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calcare de Altamura Formation, Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; fine-grained, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by M. Sarti, M. Claps, M. Petruzzelli in 1999–2008

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• discovered by geologists Massimo Sarti and Michele Claps

Primary reference: U. Nicosia, M. Marino, N. Mariotti, C. Murano, S. Panigutti, F. M. Petti, and E. Sacchi. 1999. The Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracksite near Altamura (Bari, southern Italy). I – geological framework. Geologica Romana 35:231-236 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67199: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.11.2006

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