Lavini di Marco, Rovereto (colatoi inferiori) (Jurassic of Italy)

Where: Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (45.9° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 15.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Peritidal Member (Monte Zugna Formation), Late/Upper Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• group name = "Grey Limestones"; site in upper part of Lower Member; "middle peritidal unit"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; bioturbated, peloidal, red lime mudstone and peloidal, gray wackestone

• peloidal mud, light gray and rose colored, some dessication cracks, laminae, "dinoturbation", alternates with stromatolitic bands, peloidal gray wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1990-1993

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1995. Jurassic and Cretaceous sauropod evidence in the Mesozoic carbonate platforms of the southern Alps and Dinarids. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:65-73 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61852: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. ornithopod
ROLM 53, 63, 64
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.3 theropod
ROLM 130
Theropoda indet.2 theropod
ROLM 209
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.3 sauropod
ROLM 75, 154
 Thaumatoporellales -
 Ichnofossils -
cf. Zoophycos sp.1 Massalongo 1855
"Zoophycos-like"