Pula 2020 cretaceous turtle team

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Reviewing the old sites

An interesting and a very rare find yesterday. It looks like it is an EK baby ankylosaur (nodosaurid) footprint on a piece of rock. I've found it near the ankylosaur dinoturbation No 2.

It is only the middle of February. No tourists at the beaches of Pula. Thus the sea is crystal clear.

A theropod track. It is probably from a large dromaeosaurid.

Yesterday: The giant ankylosaur (nodosaurid) footprint - natural cast deteriorated since the last time I had photographed it a couple of years ago. The new tourist signatures are engraved on it as well.

More on Pula ankylosaurs

I have discovered the second site containing ankylosaur tracks (dinoturbation) near Pula about a year after the first one, which is about a kilometre away. It is interesting, but this time I thought I was looking at the single theropod footprint. Yet, it didn't seem right. It didn't look like a typical theropod footprint. Nearby was the second impression, only convex (infilling). The pace angle was too wide for a theropod. I have also noticed there were in fact 5 toe impressions. The print was obviously left by a quadrupedal animal: a large ankylosaur. Later, I have discovered more foot impressions of the same animal, or the animal of the same size.

The red outline of the best preserved impressions in the ankylosaur trackway.

Another foot impression ( right hind foot - pes) of the large Sauropelta-like dinosaur on the same outcrop. This one is not part of the trackway above (red outline is my interpretation).

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More nature

Mudcracks at the Solaris outcrop, with a probable dinosaur track, possibly ornithopod. Early Cretaceous (Albian) — Porec, Solaris fkk auto camp.

 Pula, Early Cretaceous (Albian), probable ankylosaur trackway.