El Corral del Totico 2 tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as 2TT, Lastra 9-B

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.1° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 9.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• within unit C4m/13

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, gray lime mudstone

• "in a level of gray limestone"

•"in layers of mudstone (micritic limestone)...usually hard, and with the typical dark gray color...in groups of calcareous layers interspersed with sandy and shale packets."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Brancas, Jiménez Vela & Pérez-Lorente in 1979, 2001, 2003

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. Jiménez Vela and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2007. El Corral del Totico. Dos nuevos yacimientos con pistas singulares. (Enciso, La Rioja, España) [El Corral del Totico. Two new localities with unique tracks. (Enciso, La Rioja, Spain)]. Zubía Monográfico 18–19:115-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 202004: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
trackway 2TT15, 16 (bipedal, tridactyl)
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
trackway 2TT13; tracks 2TT127, 133
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
trackways 2TT1-6, 2TT8, 2TT10-12; tracks 2TT21, 36, 49, 60, 73, 81, 82, 84, 130, 131, 140, 143-145
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Brachyguanodonipus sp. Moratalla 1993 ornithopod
trackway 2TT7