Becco di Filadonna tracksite (upper): Hettangian - Early/Lower Sinemurian, Italy
collected by M. Avanzini 1997

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845
Reptilia - Parabrontopodidae
Parabrontopodus sp. Lockley et al. 1995
Reptilia
Sauropodomorpha indet. (Huene 1932)
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Trentino-Alto Adige County:Trento
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 11.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° North, 16.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1071 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Hettangian - Early/Lower Sinemurian
Age range of interval:201.30000 - 189.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Calcari Grigi Formation:Monte Zugna Member:Upper Subtidal
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: basal part of member, "upper subtidal unit"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:wavy/flaser/lenticular bedding,bioturbation,concretionary,brown,gray wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 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"
Environment:paralic indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:M. Avanzini Collection dates:1997
Metadata
Also known as:Becco Filadonna
Database number:194080
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-06-13 11:01:49 Last modified:2018-06-13 11:04:30
Access level:the public Released:2018-06-13 11:01:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

65914. 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]