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tracksites were discovered in the Gargano promontory, the former in the Mattinata pier blocks (Conti et al., 2005) and the latter close to the Borgo Celano village
(Petti et al., 2008). Here the track-bearing levels span from the Late Jurassic (?late Tithonian) to Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian-early Barremian). It is worth of
note that other trampled limestone
blocks or surfaces were signalled in other sector of the region,
even though the analysis of some of them is still in progress
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