La Cuesta de Andorra tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Arnedo, Logroño, Navalsaz, LCA, AND

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.1° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 9.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Villar Navalsaz Formation (Enciso Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, black, yellow lime mudstone

• "littoral-lacustrine in a setting not influenced by the waves produced by storms"
• "limestones"

•"compacted limestone...black when freshly cut and yellow-gray on the outside...there are dessication cracks in the top of the layers."

•"a mudstone limestone with few ostracods and incomplete shrinkage cracks"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Ochoa Martínez, L. Viera, L. Torres in 1968, 1971

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. L. Casanovas Cladellas and J.-V. Santafé Llopis. 1971. Icnitas de reptiles mesozoicos en la provincia de Logroño [Mesozoic reptile footprints in Logroño province]. Acta Geològica Hispànica 6(5):139-142 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 173545: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.10.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• There are supposedly "type 3" dinosaur tracks from a quadruped (Viera and Torres, 1979), but later papers specify only a single trackway at the site.
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Caririchnium magnificum Leonardi 1984 ornithopod
footprints, "type 1"; trackway LCA 1 = AND1