José María Herrero tracksite (Jurassic to of Spain)

Also known as JMH

Where: Aragón, Spain (40.7° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Villar del Arzobispo Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• low in formation, same level as Galvesaurus site.

•Age of Villar del Arzobispo Formation constrained to Kimmeridgian-Tithonian by Campos-Soto et al. (2017), rather than Tithonian-Berriasian of older literature

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. Castanera, J. I. Canudo, I. Díaz-Martínez, J. Herrero Gascón, and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2010. Grandes contramoldes de icnitas de saurópodos en el Tithónico-Berriasiense de la Formación Villar del Arzobispo en Galve (Teruel) [Big casts of sauropod footprints in the Tithonian-Berriasian of Villar del Arzobispo Formation in Galve (Teruel)]. In J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, L. Piñuela, & J. C. García-Ramos (eds.), Comunicaciones del V Congreso del Jurásico de España 178-183 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 201815: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.05.2019

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Macronaria indet. Sereno 1997 sauropod
JMH1.7m