San Vicente de Munilla VII tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as SVM VII, Nivel 3-III, Umbría Pelilla 2, UPE 2

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.2° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 9.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Nivel 3-III within overall Nivel 3 package; 5 track-bearing levels ("tramos" 33, 34, 37, 39, 41)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; ferruginous, micaceous, calcareous sandstone and fine-grained, ferruginous, quartzose, shelly/skeletal wackestone

• SVM VII: "a fine quartzarenite, locally a quartoze graywacke, massive, muscovitic with some carbonate cement...at the top of the stratum are observed, besides the tracks, iron crusts and (micro) oscillation ripples"

•UPE 2: a fine quartzose graywacke, locally quartzarenite, with few ostracods and some ferruginous crusts."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. I. Viera and L. M. Aguirrezabala. 1982. El Weald de Munilla (La Rioja) y sus icnitas de dinosaurios (I) [The Wealden of Munilla (La Rioja) and its dinosaur footprints (I)]. Munibe 34(4):245-270 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 173548: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.10.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
trackway + isolated track (SVM VII); 14 tracks (UPE 2)