Dogna Valley tracksite (Triassic of Italy)

Also known as Val Dogna

Where: Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (46.4° N, 13.3° E: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 18.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monticello Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• Dogna Unit = Monticello Fm., below Dolomia Principale (Hauptdolomit)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, muddy limestone and dolomitic, ooidal, black mudstone

• "The printed bed is a dark gray, marly, limestone with its upper surface interested by mud cracking."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by P. Dereani, R. Marini, F. Musi in 1994

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1996. Archosaurian trackways in the upper Carnian of Dogna Valley (Udine, Friuli, NE Italy). Natura Nascosta 20:5-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 101503: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Diapsida -
Crocodylotarsi indet.
Crocodylotarsi indet. Benton and Clark 1988 archosauromorph
trackways; could be aetosaur, rauisuchian, phytosaur or crocodylomorph