Cima Palon tracksite (Jurassic to of Italy)

Also known as Monte Pasubio, Diente Italiano

Where: Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (45.8° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "upper subtidal unit"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; ooidal bindstone

• "upper stromatolitic layer"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by M. Avanzini in 1996

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 88590: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropodomorpha indet. Huene 1932 sauropodomorph