Valle: Late/Upper Hauterivian - Early/Lower Barremian, Croatia
collected by Boscarolli 1980-

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Dalla Vecchia 2001 1 specimen
"odd bone"
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Dalla Vecchia 2005 2 specimens
tooth, ungual
Reptilia
Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997
Dalla Vecchia 1998 9 specimens
MPCM-V1, V2, V3, V7, V9, V14, WN-V3, V4, V7, Nos-IG1
Somphospondyli indet. Wilson and Sereno 1998
Dalla Vecchia 2001 1 specimen
WN-V1
Reptilia - Camarasauridae
Camarasauridae indet. Cope 1877
Dalla Vecchia 1998
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Dalla Vecchia 1997 1 specimen
    = Diplodocimorpha indet. Calvo and Salgado 1995
Dalla Vecchia 1998
    = Histriasaurus boscarollii n. gen., n. sp. Dalla Vecchia 1998
Dalla Vecchia 1999
WN-V6
unclassified
Campanellula capuensis
Dalla Vecchia 1998
see common names

Geography
Country:Croatia State/province:Istarska
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 13.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.6° North, 20.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:0 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
*Period:Early/Lower Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Hauterivian - Early/Lower Barremian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Hauterivian - Early/Lower Barremian
Age range of interval:132.60000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: unnamed formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:oncoidal,gray lithified rudstone
Secondary lithology:yellow "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: oncolitic rudstone with bone debris, and thinly laminated limestones with plant, shrimp and fish remains. Some bones...were preserved wholly in a yellow, thinly laminated limestone or with a side of the fossil in this laminated and the other side in a grey, hard oncolitic rudstone.
Environment:lacustrine - small
Geology comments: "Subtidal, intertidal and lacustrine limestones" and low-energy deposition covered by higher-energy limestones.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),chemical,field collection,observed (not collected)
Collection size:200 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Boscarolli Collection dates:1980s-
Collection method comments: exposure entirely underwater
Taxonomic list comments:Somphospondyli should be re-IDed as Titanosauriformes indet. ref 15476; Both this and the other listing of Titanosauriformes should have Sauropoda indet. with ref 29141 as the original ID, and all others as re-IDs, BUT THE DATABASE CODE STILL WILL NOT LET ME DO THIS.
Metadata
Also known as:Colonne, Kolone, Bale
Database number:26931
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-11-08 14:01:59 Last modified:2022-09-27 09:12:46
Access level:the public Released:2002-11-08 14:01:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17866.ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1995. Jurassic and Cretaceous sauropod evidence in the Mesozoic carbonate platforms of the southern Alps and Dinarids. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:65-73 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

14251ETE D. Boscarolli and F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1999. The Upper Hauterivian-Lower Barremian dinosaur site of Bale/Valle (SW Istria, Croatia). Natura Nascosta 18:1-5 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29141ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1997. Dinosauri cretacei nella piattaforma carbonatica Adriatico-Dinarica [Cretaceous dinosaurs on the Adriatic-Dinaric carbonate platform]. Natura Nascosta 15:22-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54299 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1997. Terrestrial tetrapod evidence on the Norian (Late Triassic) and Cretaceous carbonate platforms of northern Adriatic region (Italy, Slovenia and Croatia). Sargetia, Acta Musei Devensis, Series Scientia Naturae 17:177-201 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7449 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1998. Remains of Sauropoda (Reptilia, Saurischia) in the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Hauterivian/Lower Barremian) limestones of SW Istria (Croatia). Geologica Croatica 51(2):105-134 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14252ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1999. Atlas of the sauropod bones from the Upper Hauterivian-Lower Barremian of Bale/Valle (SW Istria, Croatia). Natura Nascosta 18:6-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
52730 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2000. Theropod footprints in the Cretaceous Adriatic-Dinaric carbonate platform. Gaia 15:355-367 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82706 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2000. Dinosaurs of NE Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. In S. Sachs & R. Windolf (ed.), First Symposium on European Dinosaurs. Programme and Abstracts 6-7 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25707ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2001. An odd dinosaur bone from the Lower Cretaceous of Istria (Croatia). Natura Nascosta 22:34-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14871ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2001. A vertebra of a large sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Istria (Croatia). Natura Nascosta 22:14-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59040 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2001. Terrestrial ecosystems on the Mesozoic peri-Adriatic carbonate platforms: the vertebrate evidence. VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Asociación Paleontología Argentina, Publicación Especial 7:77-83 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19574 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2005. Between Gondwana and Laurasia: Cretaceous sauropods in an intraoceanic carbonate platform. In K. Carpenter and V. Tidwell (eds.), Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 395-429 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19851ETE G. Leonardi. 2000. I dinosauri d'Italia e delle aree adiacenti [The dinosaurs of Italy and adjacent areas]. In G. Leonardi & P. Mietto (ed.), Dinosauri in Italia. Le Orme Giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e Gli Altri Resti Fossili Italiani 275-295 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]