Tracks, tracks again

A mid-Cretaceous layer from the Solaris outcrop, with mud cracks and a possible dinosaur track. The ripple marks on a lower layer. I was standing on the rock that was about 80 cm above the layer with the mud cracks.

A possible sauropod track with my interpretative outline (Albian near Pula)

 A probable sauropod track

A pebbly beach, Pula.

 Some parallel sauropod trackways near Pula.

 Recent dog tracks showing varieties in preservation.

 Lovrečica: a damaged theropod trackway. A buldozer went over them during some construction works.

 Lovrečica: a theropod track.

 Some unusual traces from a Pula beach.

 Sauropod tracks near Pula.

 Theropod tracks (Pula)

 Cliffs (Pula)

 Rudists (Pula)

 A beach in Pula

More new tracks from Pula

A nice manus-pes set track on one of Pula's numerous dinoturbations. A large theropod tracks are near by, but not visible in this photograph.

The bottom feeding fish traces from Pula beach. Probably by some large sturgeon or similar fish. It is funny that it looks like a trackway left by a big foot man in flip-flops. However, this rocks and traces are about 100 million years old!

Not easy to explain

The majority of the tracks and traces are not well preserved and thus harder to interpret, if the interpretation is possible at all.
I have photographed something that looks like a sequence of rhytmical skratching of the shallow sea floor My first guess was: the small pterosaur swim traces (highlighted in the circles); the second guess is the water bird swim traces; the third is the trace fossils of fish fins swishing along bottom of shallow water;... or the artifact. Which one would you choose?
The age is Mid-Cretaceous (late Albian) of Pula.

Traces of destruction at the Lovrecica track site

In this photograph the tracks of a medium-sized theropod from the Lovrecica Mid-Cretaceous track site are visible. The Istrian limestone (kirmenjak) is known for its toughness and durability. After all, many of the Istrian/Croatian and Italian towns used it extensively as building stone. Venice is the best known for its use.
Nevertheless, the damage left by the bulldozer driving over the outcrop is visible. It bruised the track's displacement rim (the white traces).
 The entire pieces of track bearing rock surface are missing now. The newspapers were sensationalistic in their reports claiming the tracks had been stolen. In my opinion it is a clear case of the negligence, ignorance and above all lack of protection implementation.

My interpretation is the red outline on the right. The bottom footprint is speculative.

A view at the sleepy Lovrecica, one early December morning in 2012.

The oak trees growing on the beach vis-à-vis Lovrecica.