Villaggio del Pescatore (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Also known as Duino, VdP

Where: Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy (45.8° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 15.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aurisina Formation, Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Accordiella conica and Rotalispira scarsellai biozone

•Previously described as the Liburnian Formation, but more recently considered to be the Aurisina Formation (Marco et al. 2023) and dated to the early-middle Campanian (Chiarenza et al. 2021)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; black limestone

• "a narrow anoxic trough , markedly sloping, facing southward, and open inside a supratidal environment of the carbonate platform influenced by fresh water and marine influx"
• 10 m, 70 metres long thick lens of black, laminated limestones or carbonates

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1990

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical, acetic,

Primary reference: F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1995. I dinosauri in Italia: stato delle conoscenze [Dinosaurs in Italy: state of knowledge]. Natura Nascosta 11:29-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13286: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.02.2002, edited by Kaitlin Maguire, Philip Mannion and Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Caridea indet.4 Dana 1852 shrimp
shrimp
Gnathostomata
  -
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.4 Batsch 1788 turtle
 Loricata -
Crocodylomorpha indet.6 Hay 1930 crocodilian
MCSNT 57033, 57035-57037
 Loricata - Hylaeochampsidae
Acynodon adriaticus n. sp.5 Delfino et al. 2008 crocodilian
MCSNT 57248, 57032
 Theropoda -
? Theropoda indet.2 theropod
SC 57030, "arctometatarsalian metatarsal"
 Ornithischia -
Tethyshadros insularis n. gen. n. sp.3
Tethyshadros insularis n. gen. n. sp.3 Dalla Vecchia 2009 ornithopod
"Antonio", SC 57021 (holotype), complete articulated skeleton. SC 57022, partial, articulated forelimbs. SC 57023, left pubis. SC 57025, cervical vertebra. SC 57026, complete skull. SC 57247, partial articulated skeleton. SC 57256, isolated dorsal rib. Minimum of four individuals
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.5 Kaup 1834 pterosaur
unclassified
  -
Plantae indet.4 Haeckel 1866
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Rhapydioninidae
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Pfenderinidae