La Pellejera tracksite (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Also known as Hornillos de Cameros, LPE, PL, LP, 1LP

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.2° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Enciso Group, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• four surfaces (TC1–TC4) that represent different episodes of track-making and erosion, and therefore include subtracks and undertracks.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive, silty sandstone

• "silty sandstone...generally massive, although laminites can be seen on the edges of some footprints."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by J. J. Santos; Pérez-Lorente, Requeta in 2001–2003, 2006–2009

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• discovered by the mayor of Hornillos de Cameros

Primary reference: C. Martín Escorza. 2001. Orientación de la huellas de dinosaurios en la Sierra de Cameros [Orientation of the dinosaur tracks in the Sierra de Cameros]. Zubía 19:139-163 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 201997: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.2 Owen 1842 dinosaur
"semiplantigrade"
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
386 large and small specimens
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
286 specimens