Becco di Filadonna tracksite (lower): 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
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
1
    = Parabrontopodus sp. Lockley et al. 1995
Avanzini and Petti 2008
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:201.40000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Calcari Grigi Formation:Monte Zugna Member:Middle Peritidal
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: basal part of member, "middle peritidal unit"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:dolomitic,ooidal bindstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: MPU: "dolomitized stromatolitic bindstone"
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:68887
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-02-12 10:22:23 Last modified:2018-06-22 16:33:21
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-12 10:22:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19851.ETE G. Leonardi. 2000. I dinosauri d'Italia e delle aree adiacenti [The dinosaurs of Italy and adjacent areas]. In G. Leonardi & P. Mietto (ed.), Dinosauri in Italia. Le Orme Giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e Gli Altri Resti Fossili Italiani 275-295 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

66107 M. Avanzini, G. Leonardi, R. Tomasoni and M. Campolongo. 2001. Enigmatic dinosaur trackways from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of the Sarca Valley, northeast Italy. Ichnos 8:235-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29718ETE M. Avanzini and F. M. Petti. 2008. Updating the dinosaur tracksites from the Lower Jurassic Calcari Grigi Group (Southern Alps, northern Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica 83:289-301 [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]
37136 C. Dal Sasso. 2003. Dinosaurs of Italy. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:45-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29716ETE F. M. Petti, M. Avanzini, M. Belvedere, M. De Gasperi, P. Ferretti, S. Girardi, F. Remondino and R. Tomasoni. 2008. Digital 3D modelling of dinosaur footprints by photogrammetry and laser scanning techniques: integrated approach at the Coste dell'Anglone tracksite (Lower Jurassic, Southern Alps, northern Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica 83:303-315 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]