Calcare di Aurisina
Calcare di Aurisina Stratigraphic range: | |
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Type | Geological formation |
Location | |
Country | Italy |
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
Pescatore |
Fish[]
Genus | Species | Description | Location | Material |
---|---|---|---|---|
Teleost indet. | unknown | Villaggio del
Pescatore |
Crocodiles[]
Genus | Species | Description | Location | Material |
---|---|---|---|---|
Acynodon[1] | A.adriaticus | A small coccodrylomorph | Villaggio del
Pescatore |
A partial skeleton in anatomical connection. |
Crocodylia indet. | unknown | Villaggio del
Pescatore |
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[]
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Footnotes[]
- ^ "Dinosauro Antonio – Museo di Storia Naturale" (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Figure 1 | Scientific Reports". ISSN 2045-2322.
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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.
Categories:
- Geologic formations of Italy
- Santonian Stage
- European geologic formation stubs