Becco di Filadonna tracksite (upper) (Jurassic to of Italy)

Also known as Becco Filadonna

Where: Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (45.9° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 16.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Subtidal Member (Monte Zugna Formation), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 189.6 Ma)

• basal part of member, "upper subtidal unit"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; bioturbated, concretionary, brown, gray wackestone

• USU: "two distinct stromatolitic layers...follow bioturbated brown and dark grey wackestone/packstone, organized into thin (10-30 cm) nodular beds with low-angle lamination and/or flaser structures...both...are dinoturbated"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by M. Avanzini in 1997

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Avanzini, D. Piubelli, P. Mietto, G. Roghi, R. Romano and D. Masetti. 2006. Lower Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) dinosaur track megasites, southern Alps, northern Italy. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:207-216 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194080: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Parabrontopodidae
Parabrontopodus sp. Lockley et al. 1995 sauropod
 Saurischia -
Sauropodomorpha indet. Huene 1932 sauropodomorph
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845 theropod