Las Cerradicas tracksite: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Spain
collected 1990-2005
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Plesiochelyidae
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Plesiochelyidae indet.
Rütimeyer 1873
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Pérez-García et al. 2013 | |||||||||
MPG-730-20 and -21, two fragments of costal plates, juveniles | ||||||||||
Plesiochelys sp.
Rütimeyer 1873
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Pérez-García et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Several plates, MPG-730-1 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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3 individuals | |||||||||
= Theropoda informal indet. 1
Marsh 1881
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Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004 | |||||||||
= ? Therangospodus sp.
Lockley et al. 2000
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Canudo et al. 2005 | |||||||||
Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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1 individual | |||||||||
= Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004 | |||||||||
LCR 1-4, 8, 15, 16, 18 | ||||||||||
Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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Canudo et al. 2008 | 93 specimens | ||||||||
juveniles, possibly gregarious | ||||||||||
= cf. Sauropodichnus giganteus
Calvo 1991
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Castanera et al. 2011 | |||||||||
LCR 9-14 | ||||||||||
? Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Canudo et al. 1997 | |||||||||
undertracks | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Textulariia indet.
Mikhalevich 1980
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Skolithos sp.
Haldemann 1840
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Arenicolites sp.
Salter 1857
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or Diplocraterion sp. | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Spain | State/province: | Aragón | County: | Teruel |
Coordinates: | 40.7° North, 0.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 31.6° North, 8.6° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Altitude: | 1291 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Villar del Arzobispo | ||||
Local section: | Galve | Local bed: | 210 m | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: above levels of Cuesta Lonsal site
Age of Villar del Arzobispo Formation constrained to Kimmeridgian-Tithonian by Campos-Soto et al. (2017), rather than Tithonian-Berriasian of older literature |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | wave ripples,bioturbation,fine,micaceous,gray sandy,calcareous "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "this bed is a sandy limestone. Crystalline calcite forms the matrix for the abundant fine-grained angular quartz. The thin-section shows minot elements such as muscovite, garnet, dark minerals, calcareous fragments and agglutinated foraminifera. Sedimentary structures include penecontemporaneous ripple marks, vertical U-shaped burrows...and vertical burrows." | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Geology comments: near the contemporaneous shoreline, "fluvial-dominated delta plain depostis, showing local traces of subaerial exposure and scarce evidence for tide reworking." |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),peel or thin section,observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1990-2005 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Galve | ||
Database number: | 58763 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Tennant |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-02-23 13:44:14 | Last modified: | 2024-01-30 15:31:59 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-23 13:44:14 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17617. | ETE | F. Pérez-Lorente, G. Cuenca-Bescos, M. Aurell, J. I. Canudo, A. R. Soria and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 1997. Las Cerradicas tracksite (Berriasian, Galve, Spain): growing evidence for quadrupedal ornithopods. Ichnos 5:109-120 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
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69025 | L. Alcalá, M. G. Lockley, A. Cobos, L. Mampel, and R. Royo-Torres. 2016. Evaluating the dinosaur track record: an integrative approach to understanding the regional and global distribution, scientific importance, preservation, and management of tracksites. In P. L. Falkingham, D. Marty, & A. Richter (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps 100-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
17673 | ETE | J. L. Barco. 2005. Estudio y comparación del esqueleto axial de un saurópodo (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) procedente de la Formación Villar del Arzobispo (Titónico-Berriasiense) de Galve, Teruel [Study and comparison of the axial skeleton of a sauropod (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Galve, Teruel]. Treballs del Museu de Geología de Barcelona 13:15-59 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
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