Calcare di Aurisina
Appearance
Calcare di Aurisina | |
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Stratigraphic range: | |
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
[edit]Invertebrates
[edit]Genus | Species | Description | Location | Material |
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Crustacean | unknown | Shrimps | Villaggio del
Pescatore |
Fish
[edit]Genus | Species | Description | Location | Material |
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Teleost indet. | unknown | Villaggio del
Pescatore |
Crocodiles
[edit]Genus | Species | Description | Location | Material |
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Acynodon[1] | A.adriaticus | A small crocodrylomorph | Villaggio del
Pescatore |
A partial skeleton in anatomical connection. |
Crocodylia indet. | unknown | Villaggio del
Pescatore |
Pterosaurs
[edit]Genus | Species | Description | Location | Material |
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Pterosauria indet. | unknown | Villaggio del
Pescatore |
An alar metacarpal. |
Dinosaurs
[edit]Genus | Species | Description | Location | Material |
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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
[edit]Plants
[edit]Genus | Species | Description | Location | Material |
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Pinophyta[4] |
Algae
[edit]Genus | Species | Description | Location | Material |
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Characeae |
See also
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ "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. Bibcode:2021NatSR..1123295C. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-02490-x. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8640049. PMID 34857789.
- ^ "Figure 1 | Scientific Reports". Scientific Reports. ISSN 2045-2322.
- ^ "Dinosauro Antonio – Museo di Storia Naturale" (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-12-11.
References
[edit]- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.