Porto Corsini tracksite (Cava di Sarone) (Cretaceous to of Italy)

Where: Friulia-Venezia Giulia, Italy (46.0° N, 12.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 20.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcare di Cellina Formation, Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; wackestone and burrowed, bioturbated, pebbly, brown, white limestone

• limestone facies "corresponds to the peritidal successions of the inner part of the Periadriatic carbonate platforms." Footprint layer is "intertidal muds which were later covered and sealed by a transgressive subtidal layer...representing a moderately more open but low energy environment."
• "Most of the limestone blocks show similar lithofacies, with bed thickness exceeding a metre, the presence of occasional stylolites and rare requienids; the bed surfaces present mud cracks, bioturbation due to burrowing organisms and pedogenetic breccias (sometimes with black pebbles). The colour ranges from whitish through light brown to pale pink...The blocks sometimes present dessication structures (mud cracks, birdseyes) and mostly comprise muddy facies, often with ostracods. In contrast, the level with the footprint is a fossiliferous wackestone (with foraminifers and ostracods), with no traces of subaerial exposure."

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collection methods: bulk, salvage, surface (in situ),

• Block is currently in a pier at Porto Corsini, but was traced to an original quarry in Sarone.

Primary reference: F. M. Dalla Vecchia and S. Venturini. 1995. A theropod (Reptilia, Dinosauria) footprint on a block of Cretaceous limestone at the pier of Porto Corsini (Ravenna, Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 101(1):93-98 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26920: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• matrix includes foraminifera and ostracizes
Show authors, comments, and common names
Reptilia
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet.3
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1
Foraminifera
  -
Campanellula capuensis2
1Dalla Vecchia 1997; 2Dalla Vecchia 2005; 3Leonardi 2000