Dinosaur
traces & remains in Slovenia
and Croatia
In my research I presented the locations of dinosaur
tracks and bones in Slovenia and Istria. These locations
are on Mali Levan, cape Marlera, Fenoliga, cape Verdela,
the Archipelago Brioni and locations near Bale, Beram,
the mouth Mirna, camp Solaris (Cervar), Kozina and hamlet
Pesek. I focused especially on locations in Pesek and
Solaris. My work included prints counting, measuring,
sketching, trying to find links among them, photographing
and gathering limestone samples. I concluded that the
tracks in Solaris belong to mostly five different animal
species and that those animals were relatively small.
As to the location in Pesek I found out that the prints
there belong to only one dinosaur species. The supposed
prints, which are near the „main” tracks, are only hollows
in the dolomite slab, filled with iron hydroxide. Similar,
but empty hollows (as the locals said) also supposed
to present the dinosaur’s finger impressions, but in
this case they are only hollows int he stoneware. I managed
to photograph and measure also the plaster casts from
the island of Fenoliga, which belong to the Slovenian
Museum of Natural History.
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