Kirmenjak II quarry tracksite: Late Tithonian, Croatia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Parabrontopodidae
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| 1 individual | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Croatia | State/province: | Istarska |
| Coordinates: | 45.2° North, 13.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.9° North, 33.4° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 145.06 - 143.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | peloidal packstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: fenestral mudstone capped by a thin peloidal packstone-grainstone layer and overlain by subtidal mudstones | |
| Environment: | peritidal |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | regressive |
| Geology comments: an intertidal deposit ("tidal flats") at the top of a shallowing-upward cycle | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:microfossils listed as coming from this unit, but are probably not from this stratum within the section | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 205810 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-10-23 09:11:35 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-10-23 09:11:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 70576. | A. Mezga, D. Buckovic, and F. Santak. 2017. New dinosaur tracksite in the Late Jurassic of Kirmenjak quarry (Istria). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 123(3):443-454 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |