Fenoliga tracksite (Cretaceous of Croatia)

Also known as Fenolega, Felonega

Where: Istarska, Croatia (44.8° N, 13.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.3° N, 14.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• no names given to any units discussed

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, gray wackestone

• "Concordant, well-bedded white-grey limestone layers, with bed-thicknesses varying between 0.1 and 0.5 m...the track-bearing exposure comprises the upper bedding plane of a 12-cm-thick limestone layer...Two carbonate lithofacies can be discerned. White, massive, micritic limestones predominate on the western side while the eastern side is characterized by a grey rudist biostrome between 2 and 2.5 m wide and oriented N-S. Radiolitid rudistis occur in dense thickets or agglomerations, lithified in vertical to subvertical positions. Interstices between the shells are filled with fine skeletal detritus. The dinosaur trackways occur on the upper surface of the biostrome, suggesting it was dead and at least temporarily emergent during trackway formation...the massive limestone is a bioclastic wackestone...Geopetal fabrics are common within the limestones. The lower part of these fabrics is infilled with vadose crystal silt and the upper part with sparry calcite cement."

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Gogala

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Gogala. 1975. Sledi iz davnine na jugu Istre [Tracking ancient life in southern Istria]. Proteus 37(5):229-232 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 28002: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.01.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1 sauropod
trackways or footprint groups; FEN-ST1
 Theropoda -
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolitidae indet.3 Gray 1848 rudist
unclassified
  -
Chlorophyta indet.3 Reichenbach 1834
"algae"
Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Mayncinidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
  -
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Verneuilina sp.3 d'Orbigny 1831
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet.3 Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
 Miliolida - Meandropsinidae
 Miliolida - Soritidae