Barranco de Valdegutiérrez tracksite (CS layer) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as 1BVG, 2BVG, 5BVG, 6BVG, 7BVG, 8BVG, 9BVG, 11BVG, 12BVG, 14BVG, 15BVG, 20BVG, 24BVG, 26BVG, 27BVG, 28BVG

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)

• unit C13/4m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone

• dark limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by S. Doublet in 2001, 2003, 2005

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. Jímenez-Vela and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2005. A new great dinosaur footprint site: Barranco de Valdegutiérrez (La Rioja, Spain). International Symposium on Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates Palaeoichnology. Abstract Book 37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 202005: 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
tracks 2BVG5, 6, 8
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
trackways 2BVG1, 2, 11BVG1
? Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
 Saurischia -
? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
trackways 1BVG1, 2, 2BVG3; tracks 1BVG4, 2BVG4; one "similar to Hadrosaurichnoides igeensis"