Calcari Grigi di Noriglio Formation

{{Short description|Geological formation in Italy}}

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| age = Hettangian-Sinemurian, Early Jurassic

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The Calcari Grigi di Noriglio Formation is a geological formation in Italy, dating to roughly between 200 and 190 million years ago and covering the Hettangian to Sinemurian stages of the Jurassic Period in the Mesozoic Era. Fossil prosauropod tracks have been reported in the formation.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." pp. 517–607.

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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}}.

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Category:Jurassic System of Europe

Category:Geologic formations of Italy

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