Calcare di Aurisina

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Calcare di Aurisina
Stratigraphic range: Campanian
TypeGeological formation
Location
CountryItaly

The Calcare di Aurisina is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Italy. Dinosaurs have been discovered in this formation.

Fauna[]

Invertebrates[]

Genus Species Description Location Material
Crustacean unknown Shrimps Villaggio del

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Fish[]

Genus Species Description Location Material
Teleost indet. unknown Villaggio del

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Crocodiles[]

Genus Species Description Location Material
Acynodon[1] A.adriaticus A small coccodrylomorph Villaggio del

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A partial skeleton in anatomical connection.
Crocodylia indet. unknown Villaggio del

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Pterosaurs[]

Genus Species Description Location Material
Pterosauria indet. unknown Villaggio del

Pescatore

An alar metacarpal.

Dinosaurs[]

Genus Species Description Location Material
Tethyshadros[2] T.insularis A small hadrosauromorph dinosaur Villaggio del

Pescatore

Two nearly complete skeletons, a pair of front legs, a left pubis,

a cervical vertebra with a still articulated right cervical rib,

a complete but highly deformed skull,

a series of caudal vertebrae and isolated dorsal rib.

Theropoda indet.[3] unknown Villaggio del

Pescatore

An epiphysis of a long bone, perhaps of a femur.

Flora[]

Plants[]

Genus Species Description Location Material
Pinophyta[4]

Algae[]

Genus Species Description Location Material
Characeae

See also[]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ "Dinosauro Antonio – Museo di Storia Naturale" (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-12-11.
  2. ^ Chiarenza, Alfio Alessandro; Fabbri, Matteo; Consorti, Lorenzo; Muscioni, Marco; Evans, David C.; Cantalapiedra, Juan L.; Fanti, Federico (2021-12-02). "An Italian dinosaur Lagerstätte reveals the tempo and mode of hadrosauriform body size evolution". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 23295. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-02490-x. ISSN 2045-2322.
  3. ^ "Figure 1 | Scientific Reports". ISSN 2045-2322. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "Dinosauro Antonio – Museo di Storia Naturale" (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-12-11.

References[]

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.


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