The Mesozoic palaeoenvironmental richness of the Trieste Karst

The Mesozoic of the Trieste Karst is part 90th Congress Italian Geological Society, Italy, 2021. guide aims at documenting selected outcrops located on plateau where fossil richness related to particular carbonate platform facies associations highlight area as an important archive for marine and continental palaeodiversity. Natural History Museum holds most collection Late Cretaceous fossils, including exceptionally preserved dinosaurs (Tethyshadros insularis), reptiles, land plants, crustaceans, fishes Villaggio del Pescatore geosite. At geosite fossil-rich rhythmites are spectacularly exposed quarried surfaces. Cava Romana it possible observe Upper rudist-rich Aurisina limestone. Slivia quarry exposes a palaeokarst deposit made large limestone blocks. Cenomanian peritidal succession Moschenizza hill shows m-thick rudist beds, cm-thick dark-coloured, muddy wackestones sporadically rich in plants like Frenelopsis.