Where: Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (46.0° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 16.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rotzo Formation (Calcari Grigi Group), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• lower part of Rotzo Fm. ("formerly Tovel Mb."); middle-?late Sinemurian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: paralic; ooidal, gray grainstone and bioturbated, intraclastic, ooidal, gray wackestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by E. Filippi & M. Maceri in 2007
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• discovered by Ermanno Filippi and Massimo Maceri
Primary reference: M. Avanzini and F. M. Petti. 2008. Updating the dinosaur tracksites from the Lower Jurassic Calcari Grigi Group (Southern Alps, northern Italy). Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica 83:289-301 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 88586: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Reptilia | |
Kayentapus sp. Welles 1971 theropod
Kayentapus sp. Welles 1971 theropod |