Santa Cristina I tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (42.1° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Huérteles Formation (Oncala Group), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• Unit 1b, Subunit IVa

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone and gray, red shale

• "a superficial layer of leafy shales of 1.5 cm thickness, in which appear numerous desiccation cracks encrusted with limestone, very eroded and attacked by lichens, which when missing or removed, reveales an even thinner layer (0.5 cm) of reddish-gray color, which is where the footprints are found."

•"sandstone-siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Fuentes Vidarte & Meijide Calvo

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. Fuentes Vidarte and M. Meijide Calvo. 1998. Icnitas de dinosaurios teropodos en el Weald de Soria (España). Nuevo icnogenero Kalohippus [Theropod dinosaur footprints in the Wealden of Soria (Spain). New ichnogenus Kalohippus]. Estudios Geológicos 54:147-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178450: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.05.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet., Kalohipus bretunensis n. gen. n. sp.
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
"group A"; large size
Kalohipus bretunensis n. gen. n. sp. Fuentes Vidarte and Meijide Calvo 1998 theropod
26 tracks, small size