VRBL 4, Bella Lasta tracksite (Jurassic of Italy)

Also known as Valle di Revolto, Monti Lessini

Where: Verona, Italy (45.7° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 16.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rotzo Formation (Calcari Grigi Group), Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• base of Rotzo Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; ooidal grainstone and concretionary, pyritic wackestone

• lower layers - shallow marine tidal currents; upper layer - lagoonal
• "mainly composed of oolitic grainstone (oolitic bars)...the upper footprint-bearing horizon is composed of wackestone layers with pyrite nodules"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by G. Roghi in 1992

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Mietto, G. Roghi, and R. Zorzin. 2000. Le impronte di dinosauri liassici dei Monti Lessini Veronesi [The Liassic dinosaur tracks from the Veronese Monti Lessini]. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona. Geologia Paleontologia Preistoria 24:55-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194085: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
two successive tridactyl tracks