Histological bone structure of Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs from southwest Istria (Croatia)

Cenomanian dinosaur tracks on the islet of Fenoliga in southern Istria, Croatia

“…Dinosaur bones in Istria are relatively sparse and taxonomically undefined (although most of the bones clearly belong to Sauropoda: Boscarolli et al, 1993;Kozaric ´et al, 1996;Dalla Vecchia, 1998). As a result, it is difficult to determine the identity of the trackway producers.…”

“…An initial description of the footprints on the island of Brijuni was made by the Austrian palaeontologist Bachofen-Echt in 1925. Studies by other authors have been subsequently published: Pols ˇak (1965), Velic ´& Tis ˇljar (1987), Ferrari (1992), Boscarolli et al (1993), Dalla Vecchia et al (1993), Dalla Vecchia (1994Vecchia ( , 1996Vecchia ( , 1997, Tunis et al (1994), Jurkovs ˇek et al (1994, Kozaric ´et al (1994Kozaric ´et al ( , 1996, Forlani (1995) and Tarlao (1996). Gogala (1975), Gogala & Pavlovec (1978) and Pavlovec & Gogala (1992) discovered dinosaur tracks on the islet of Fenoliga.…”

New Late Cretaceous (Coniacian) sauropod tracks from Hvar Island, Croatia

“…Although the Adriatic-Dinaric Carbonate Platform (ADCP) was a critical area in terms of Cretaceous faunal interchanges of the western Tethyan archipelago (Dalla Vecchia 2002;Pereda-Suberbiola 2009;Csiki-Sava et al 2015), dinosaur fossils (or those of other continental vertebrates) from this region are poorly known. As far as body fossils are concerned, significant dinosaur remains are known from Hauterivian-Barremian sediments lying a few meters below the Adriatic Sea level, close to Bale (Vale) in Istria (Boscarolli et al 1993;Kozari c et al 1996;Dalla Vecchia, 1998a, 2001; Boscarolli and Dalla Vecchia 1999). Complete and partial skeletons of the derived hadrosauroid Tethyshadros insularis are known from the Campano-Maastrichtian beds of the Trieste region (Dalla Vecchia 2009).…”

“…Most of the dinosaur fossils from the ADCP are footprints preserved in various shallow marine, Cretaceous horizons (see e.g., Tarlao 1995, 2001;Kozari c et al 1996;Mezga and Bajraktarevic 1999). For a long time, footprints were found only in the northern part of the ADCP, in Istria (Brioni, Cervar, Fazana, Fenoliga, Grakalovac, Kolone, Lovrecica, Mirna, Puntesella;see e.g., Kozari c et al 1996;Dalla Vecchia 1998b, 2001Mauko and Florjan ci c 2003;Mezga et al 2006a).…”