Lama Paterno quarry, Bisceglie (bed 3): Early Aptian, Italy
collected 2006
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Tubothalamea
- Miliolida
- Miliolidae
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Miliolidae indet.
Ehrenberg 1839
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Sacchi et al. 2009 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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| Sacchi et al. 2009 | 2 individuals | |||||||||
| BLP2, BLP8 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Italy | State/province: | Apulia | County: | Bari |
| Coordinates: | 41.2° North, 16.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.3° North, 34.9° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Aptian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 121.4 - 119.57 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Calcare di Bari | Member: | Corato | ||
| Local section: | BLP | Local bed: | 3.7 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: informal member name, foorptins in type section | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks grainstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: grainstone | |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: carbonate platform shifting from supratidal to subtidal to inner lagoon | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 2006 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13144 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Fara, M. Carrano | Enterer: | E. Fara, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-01-23 07:18:19 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-01-23 07:18:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34471. | ETE | G. Leonardi. 2008. Vertebrate ichnology in Italy. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica 83:213-221 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 59342 | A. Iannone, M. Petruzzelli, and R. La Perna. 2012. La cava ad orme di dinosauro di Molfetta: opportunità di tutela, valorizzazione e divulgazione di una singolarità geologico-paleontologica del territorio [The dinosaur footprint quarry of Molfetta: opportunity for protection, enhancement, and dissemination of a geological-paleontological singularity of the territory]. Geologi e Territorio 9(2):17-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 29155 | ETE | E. Sacchi, M. A. Conti, S. D. Porchetti, A. Logoluso, U. Nicosia, G. Perugina, and F. M. Petti. 2009. Aptian dinosaur footprints from the Apulian platform (Bisceglie, southern Italy) in the framework of periadriatic ichnosites. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 271:104-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |