San Cristóbal 3, Galve (SC-3) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Cabeza de San Cristóbal, SC3

Where: Aragon, Spain (40.1° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Triqueta nannofossil zone, Camarillas Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• = Areniscas de Camarillas

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone

• low-sinuosity fluvial channels and extensive shaly flats

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by J, Herrero & F. Pérez-Lorente in 2008–2011

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Royo-Torres, L. Mampel, and L. Alcalá. 2013. Icnitas de dinosaurios del yacimiento San Cristóbal 3 de la Formación Camarillas en Galve (Teruel, España) [Dinosaur footprints from the San Cristóbal 3 locality from the Camarillas Formation in Galve (Teruel, Spain)]. Geogaceta 53:5-8 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146287: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodontia indet. ornithopod
orig. ID as sauropod