Santa Maria de Meià tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Vall d'Ariet, Santa Maria de Meia

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.0° N, 1.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Figuerola Formation (Fontllonga Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "unit 2"; C29R chron; ca. 3 m below Fontllonga-3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; coarse-grained, quartzose, white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

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 183154: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.12.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
hundreds of tracks