Monte Bernadia tracksite: Aptian, Italy

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Reptilia - Dinosauria
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Friulia-Venezia Giulia County:Udine
Coordinates: 46.2° North, 13.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.5° North, 39.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:633 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Aptian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 3
Key time interval: Aptian
Age range of interval: 121.4 - 113 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Calcare di Cellina
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,paleosol/pedogenic,pebbly,green wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:mire/swamp
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: "marsh-lacustrine"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Spatial orientation:life position
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
Metadata
Database number:61466
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-06-13 06:13:03 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-06-13 06:13:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

23417.ETE S. Venturini. 1995. Segnalazione di un livello marnoso a characee con presunte impronte di dinosauro nell'Aptiano del M. Bernadia (Nimis, Udine) [Notice of a marly characeous level with presumed dinosaur prints in the Aptian of Monte Bernadia (Nimis, Udine)]. Natura Nascosta 11:36-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
17726ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia and S. Venturini. 1996. Le possibili impronte dinosauro del M. Bernadia e le potenzialità paleoicnologiche delle sezioni stratigrafiche [The possible dinosaur tracks of Mt. Bernadia and the paleoichnological potential of stratigraphic sections]. Natura Nascosta 12:34-44 [M. Carrano/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]