Cava De Lucia, Altamura: Early Santonian, Italy
collected by M. Sarti, M. Claps, M. Petruzzelli 1999–2008

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Nicosia et al. 1999 30000 specimens
Dal Sasso 2003
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Apulia County:Bari
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 16.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.4° North, 23.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Early Santonian
Age range of interval: 86.3 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Calcare de Altamura
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:many
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Rock censused:1500000 cm2 (area)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:M. Sarti, M. Claps, M. Petruzzelli Collection dates:1999–2008
Collection method comments: discovered by geologists Massimo Sarti and Michele Claps
Metadata
Also known as:De Lucia quarry, Murgia, Cava EcoSpi
Database number:67199
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-11-13 11:22:45 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-13 11:22:45
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
19179.ETE U. Nicosia, M. Marino, N. Mariotti, C. Murano, S. Panigutti, F. M. Petti, and E. Sacchi. 1999. The Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracksite near Altamura (Bari, southern Italy). I – geological framework. Geologica Romana 35:231-236 [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]
76499 S. D'Orazi Porchetti, U. Nicosia, F. M. Petti and E. Sacchi. 2005. Dinosaur footprints from central and southern Italy. International Symposium on Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates Palaeoichnology. Abstract Book 44-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
37136 C. Dal Sasso. 2003. Dinosaurs of Italy. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:45-66 [M. Carrano/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]
19147ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2006. Telmatosaurus and the other hadrosaurids of the Cretaceous European Archipelago. An overview. Natura Nascosta 32:1-55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41120 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2009. Telmatosaurus and the other hadrosauroids of the Cretaceous European Archipelago. An update. Natura Nascosta 39:1-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56054 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2014. An overview of the latest Cretaceous hadrosauroid record in Europe. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 268-297 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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