La Massana tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as La Maçana

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.0° N, 0.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 0.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Maçana Formation (Fontllonga Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Fontllonga section; Unit 1 of Tremp Fm., "grey unit"

•La Maçana Fm. = early Maastrichtian (Fondevilla et al. 2019)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; bioturbated limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1994

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: N. López-Martínez, L. Ardévol, M. E. Arribas and J. Civis González-Delgado. 1998. The geological record in non-marine environments around the K/T boundary (Tremp Formation, Spain). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 169(1):11-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169299: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod