Kirmenjak I quarry tracksite (Jurassic of Croatia)

Where: Istarska, Croatia (45.2° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 20.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kirmenjak Member (Porec Formation), Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• lower part of Kirmenjak unit, lowermost part of second Istrian megasequence

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; mudstone and peloidal packstone

• an intertidal deposit ("tidal flats") at the top of a shallowing-upward cycle
• fenestral mudstone capped by a thin peloidal packstone-grainstone layer and overlain by subtidal mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. Mezga, B. C. Tesovic, and Z. Bajraktarevic. 2007. First record of dinosaurs in the Late Jurassic of the Adriatic-Dinaridic carbonate platform (Croatia). Palaios 22(2):188-199 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69753: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• microfossils listed as coming from this unit, but are probably not from this stratum within the section
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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Parabrontopodidae
cf. Parabrontopodus sp.
cf. Parabrontopodus sp. Lockley et al. 1995 sauropod
trackways