Where: Lazio, Italy (41.4° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 18.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• unnamed layer

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; bioturbated wackestone and bioturbated grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 2006

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

• discovered by local hikers

Primary reference: F. M. Petti, S. D'Orazi Porchetti, M. A. Conti, U. Nicosia, G. Perugini and E. Sacchi. 2008. Theropod and sauropod footprints in the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Apenninic Carbonate Platform (Esperia, Lazio, central Italy): a further constraint on the palaeogeography of the central-Mediterranean area. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica 83:323-334 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88343: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.04.2009

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