Lavini di Marco, Rovereto (colatoio Chemini): Late/Upper Hettangian, Italy
collected by L. Chemini 1990-1993

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Thaumatoporellales
Thaumatoporella sp. Pia 1927
Baucon and Avanzini 2008
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Leonardi and Mietto 2000 2 individuals
ROLM 7, 10; indeterminate dinosaurs
Reptilia - Theropoda
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920
7 individuals
ROLM 5, 12, 21–25
    = "Carnosauria" indet. Huene 1920
Avanzini and Leonardi 1993
    = Ceratosauridae indet. Marsh 1884
Leonardi and Mietto 2000
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Carrano 2025
Reptilia
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920
2 individuals
ROLM 3, 6
    = Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Dalla Vecchia 1995
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858
Avanzini 1998 1 specimen
MTSN 5210
Reptilia
? Kayentapus sp. Welles 1971
Milàn et al. 2006 1 specimen
MTSN 5212
Kayentapus sp. Welles 1971
Milàn et al. 2006 2 specimens
MTSN 5211, 5213
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888
2 individuals
ROLM 9, "bipedal ornithischian"
    = Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881
Avanzini and Leonardi 1993
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Dalla Vecchia 1995 3 individuals
ROLM 2, 4, 11
Reptilia - Vulcanodontidae
Vulcanodontidae indet. Cooper 1984
Leonardi and Mietto 2000 1 individual
ROM 1
Reptilia
Lavinipes cheminii n. gen., n. sp. Avanzini et al. 2003
Avanzini et al. 2003 2 individuals
ROLM 192, 577
unclassified
cf. Zoophycos sp. (Massalongo 1855)
Baucon and Avanzini 2008
"Zoophycos-like"
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Trentino-Alto Adige
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 11.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 15.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:181 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Hettangian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Late/Upper Hettangian
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Calcari Grigi Formation:Monte Zugna Member:Middle Peritidal
Local section:Lavini di Marco Local bed:105
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: group name = "Grey Limestones"; site in upper part of Lower unit; "middle peritidal unit"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks,planar lamination,bioturbation,peloidal,red lime mudstone
Secondary lithology:peloidal,gray wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: peloidal mud, stromatolithic, light gray and rose colored, some laminaton, dessication cracks, "dinoturbation", alternates with stromatolitic bands, gray peloidal wackestone
Environment:peritidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Rock censused:120000 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:L. Chemini Collection dates:1990-1993
Collection method comments: 200 x 6 m2 slab
Metadata
Database number:61850
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-07-05 11:38:01 Last modified:2022-09-27 09:10:50
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-05 11:38:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
76962. G. Leonardi and M. Lanziger. 1992. Dinosauri nel Trentino: venticinque piste fossili nel Liassico di Rovereto (Trento, Italia) [Dinosaurs in Trentino: twenty-five fossil trackways in the Liassic of Rovereto (Trento, Italy)]. Paleocronache 1992(1):13-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

69025 L. Alcalá, M. G. Lockley, A. Cobos, L. Mampel, and R. Royo-Torres. 2016. Evaluating the dinosaur track record: an integrative approach to understanding the regional and global distribution, scientific importance, preservation, and management of tracksites. In P. L. Falkingham, D. Marty, & A. Richter (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps 100-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19882ETE P. Arzarello, F. Finotti, G. Galeazzo, M. Lanzinger, M. Mezzanotte and L. Veronese. 2000. Il parco delle piste dei dinosauri di Rovereto: conservazione, valorizzazione e musealizzazione [The Rovereto dinosaur trackway park: conservation, exploitation, and curation]. In G. Leonardi & P. Mietto (eds.), Dinosauri in Italia. Accademia Editoriale, Roma 377-390 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
66157 M. Avanzini. 1998. Anatomy of a footprint: bioturbation as a key to understanding dinosaur walk dynamics. Ichnos 6(3):129-139 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33969ETE M. Avanzini, S. Frisia, E. Keppens, G. Leonardi, M. Rinaldo and K. Van Driessche. 1995. Sedimentology and diagenesis of a dinosaur tracksite: new perspectives on Early Liassic paleogeography of the Southalpine. Abstract volume for Talks and Posters Presented at 10th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Surrey TW 20 OEX 10 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]
19850ETE M. Avanzini, S. Frisia, and M. Rinaldo. 2000. I Lavini di Marco nel Giurassico inferiore: la ricostruzione di un antico ambiente di vita [The Lower Jurassic Lavini di Marco: reconstruction of an ancient way of life]. In G. Leonardi & P. Mietto (eds.), Dinosauri in Italia. Accademia Editoriale, Roma 247-272 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34588ETE M. Avanzini and G. Leonardi. 1993. Dinosauri nel Trentino: il giacimento dei Lavini di Marco [Dinosaurs in Trentino: the locality of Lavini di Marco]. UCT (Uomo - Città - Territorio) 214:35-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
65917 M. Avanzini, G. Leonardi, and P. Mietto. 2003. Lavinipes cheminii ichnogen., ichnosp. nov., a possible sauropodomorph track from the Lower Jurassic of the Italian Alps. Ichnos 10(2–4):179-193 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
30100ETE A. Baucon and M. Avanzini. 2008. Zoophycos-like structures associated with dinosaur tracks in a tidal-flat environment: Lower Jurassic (Southern Alps, Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica 83:123-131 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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17866ETE 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]
82706 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2000. Dinosaurs of NE Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. In S. Sachs & R. Windolf (ed.), First Symposium on European Dinosaurs. Programme and Abstracts 6-7 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59040 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2001. Terrestrial ecosystems on the Mesozoic peri-Adriatic carbonate platforms: the vertebrate evidence. VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Asociación Paleontología Argentina, Publicación Especial 7:77-83 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34471ETE G. Leonardi. 2008. Vertebrate ichnology in Italy. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica 83:213-221 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19848ETE G. Leonardi and P. Mietto. 2000. Le piste liassiche di dinosauri dei Lavini di Marco [The Liassic dinosaur trackways of Lavini di Marco]. In G. Leonardi & P. Mietto (eds.), Dinosauri in Italia. Accademia Editoriale, Roma 169-246 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19847ETE D. Masetti. 2000. La geologia dei Lavini di Marco [The geology of Lavini di Marco]. In G. Leonardi & P. Mietto (eds.), Dinosauri in Italia. Accademia Editoriale, Roma 65-114 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
66105 J. Milàn, M. Avanzini, L. B. Clemmensen, J. C. García-Ramos, and L. Piñuela. 2006. Theropod foot movemenr recorded by Late Triiassic, Early Jurassic and Late Jurassic fossil footprints. 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 37:352-364 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55488 M. Romano, M. A. Whyte, and S. J. Jackson. 2007. Trackway ratio: A new look at trackway gauge in the analysis of quadrupedal dinosaur trackways and its implications for ichnotaxonomy. Ichnos 14(3–4):257-270 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]