Geology

Kamenjak Through the Geological Past

The Kamenjak Peninsula has great palaeontological importance due to the extremely rare dinosaur footprints found on the island of Fenoliga and Cape Grakalovac. While dinosaurs dominated the mainland, unusual rudist and oyster bivalves occupied the shallows. The finds of spiral shells of ammonites, an extinct group of cephalopods of the open sea, support the theory of the occasional deepening of the sea in the Kamenjak area. Among organisms with limestone skeletons that were able to fossilise, the most notable are extinct rudist and oyster bivalves whose related species still live today.  Numerous fossil remains in the rocks are a time machine that takes us back to the Earth’s distant past, revealing its long-lost spaces and unusual inhabitants.