Marocche di Dro tracksite (Jurassic to of Italy)

Where: Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy (46.0° N, 10.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tovel Member (Rotzo Formation), Late/Upper Sinemurian to Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 183.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; ooidal, shelly/skeletal, gray, yellow packstone

• subtidal flat with mud banks and sand deposits
• "light-grey to yellowish-grey packstone, with oolites, bioclasts, algal lumps, pellets, dasycladacean algae, foraminifera, lituolids, and miliolids."

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by M. Campolongo in 1999

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• discovered by Massimo Campolongo

Primary reference: M. Avanzini, G. Leonardi, R. Tomasoni and M. Campolongo. 2001. Enigmatic dinosaur trackways from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of the Sarca Valley, northeast Italy. Ichnos 8:235-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 88592: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
 Saurischia -
Prosauropoda indet. prosauropod
MDK4/1
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Lituolidae indet. de Blainville 1825