Porto Corsini tracksite (Cava di Sarone): Late Hauterivian - Early Barremian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Dalla Vecchia 2005
Reptilia - Avetheropoda
1 specimen
Leonardi 2000
Reptilia
Dalla Vecchia 1997 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Friulia-Venezia Giulia County:Pordenone
Coordinates: 46.0° North, 12.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.4° North, 39.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:48 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Hauterivian - Barremian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2
*Period:Early/Lower Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Hauterivian - Early/Lower Barremian
Key time interval: Late Hauterivian - Early Barremian
Age range of interval: 132.6 - 121.4 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Calcare di Cellina
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: wackestone
Secondary lithology:desiccation cracks,burrows,bioturbation,pebbly,brown,white "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Most of the limestone blocks show similar lithofacies, with bed thickness exceeding a metre, the presence of occasional stylolites and rare requienids; the bed surfaces present mud cracks, bioturbation due to burrowing organisms and pedogenetic breccias (sometimes with black pebbles). The colour ranges from whitish through light brown to pale pink...The blocks sometimes present dessication structures (mud cracks, birdseyes) and mostly comprise muddy facies, often with ostracods. In contrast, the level with the footprint is a fossiliferous wackestone (with foraminifers and ostracods), with no traces of subaerial exposure."
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: limestone facies "corresponds to the peritidal successions of the inner part of the Periadriatic carbonate platforms." Footprint layer is "intertidal muds which were later covered and sealed by a transgressive subtidal layer...representing a moderately more open but low energy environment."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some microfossils,species names
Collection methods:bulk,salvage,surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Block is currently in a pier at Porto Corsini, but was traced to an original quarry in Sarone.
Taxonomic list comments:matrix includes foraminifera and ostracizes
Metadata
Database number:26920
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-11-08 09:20:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-11-08 09:20:50
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
7447. F. M. Dalla Vecchia and S. Venturini. 1995. A theropod (Reptilia, Dinosauria) footprint on a block of Cretaceous limestone at the pier of Porto Corsini (Ravenna, Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 101(1):93-98 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

37136 C. Dal Sasso. 2003. Dinosaurs of Italy. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:45-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
23419ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1995. I dinosauri in Italia: stato delle conoscenze [Dinosaurs in Italy: state of knowledge]. Natura Nascosta 11:29-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54299 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1997. Terrestrial tetrapod evidence on the Norian (Late Triassic) and Cretaceous carbonate platforms of northern Adriatic region (Italy, Slovenia and Croatia). Sargetia, Acta Musei Devensis, Series Scientia Naturae 17:177-201 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29141ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1997. Dinosauri cretacei nella piattaforma carbonatica Adriatico-Dinarica [Cretaceous dinosaurs on the Adriatic-Dinaric carbonate platform]. Natura Nascosta 15:22-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7456 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1997. A sauropod footprint in a limestone block from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Italy. Ichnos 6(4):269-275 [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]
52730 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2000. Theropod footprints in the Cretaceous Adriatic-Dinaric carbonate platform. Gaia 15:355-367 [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]
19574 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2005. Between Gondwana and Laurasia: Cretaceous sauropods in an intraoceanic carbonate platform. In K. Carpenter and V. Tidwell (eds.), Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 395-429 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78041 C. Diedrich. 2004. New important iguanodontid and theropod trackways of the tracksite Obernkirchen in the Berriasian of NW Germany and megatracksite concept of central Europe. Ichnos 11(3-4):215-228 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19851ETE 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]
34471ETE G. Leonardi. 2008. Vertebrate ichnology in Italy. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica 83:213-221 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
23418ETE S. Venturini and F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 1995. L'impronta di dinosauro di Porto Corsini (Ravenna): storia di una scoperta [The dinosaur footprint of Porto Corsini (Ravenna): history of a discovery]. Natura Nascosta 11:22-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]