Kap Rocca tracksite, Ploce Promontory (Cretaceous to of Croatia)

Also known as Brijuni, Veliki Brioni, Lastra, Capo Ploce

Where: Istarska, Croatia (44.9° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 27.3° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 100.5 Ma)

• two levels

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; wackestone and packstone

• "The footprint-bearing level I is a wackestone with foraminifers, small gastropods and dessication structures. Level II is a packstone-grainstone with foramifers and gastropods; the printed surface shows mud cracks."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by A. Bachofen-Echt, F. Dalla Vecchia in 1920s, 1995–1996

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. Bachofen-Echt. 1925. Iguanodon-Fährten auf Brioni [Iguanodon footprints from Brioni]. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 7:172-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61853: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• beds include foraminifera, ostracodes, and gastropods
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Foraminifera
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Foraminifera indet.2
Foraminifera indet.2 Eichwald 1830
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1
 Theropoda -
Megalosauropus brionensis n. sp.3
Megalosauropus brionensis n. sp.3 Haubold 1971 theropod
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.2
Gastropoda indet.2 Cuvier 1795 snail
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.2
Ostracoda indet.2 Latreille 1802 ostracod
1Dalla Vecchia 1995; 2Dalla Vecchia 2000; 3Haubold 1971