Mina Victoria tracksite (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Also known as Navajún, MIV

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.0° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 8.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Urbión Group, Late/Upper Berriasian to Late/Upper Berriasian (145.0 - 136.4 Ma)

• two track-bearing levels, a and b

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green sandstone and yellow sandstone

• multiple lithologies:

•a) "A ​​level of greenish-gray sandstone whose roof is crossed by asymmetric ripples of almost straight and parallel ridges, with "prod casts" and "bounce marks" elongated perpendicular to the crests."

•b) "A level of sandy siltstone to the sandstone wall with ripples."

•c) "a yellow sandstone that also presents ripples, ripples straight and parallel"

•d) "Yellow, crumbly sandstones with parallel flat lamination probably synsedimentary"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by C. Nadal

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: P. Ansorena, I. Díaz-Martínez, and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2008. Mina Victoria (Navajún) y Valdeperillo (Cornago). Nuevos yacimientos de icnitas de dinosaurio en El Grupo de Urbión (Cuenca de Cameros. La Rioja. España) [Mina Victoria (Navajún) and Valdeperillo (Cornago). New dinosaur footprint localities in the Urbión Group (Cameros Basin. La Rioja. Spain)]. Zubía 25–26:75-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 202006: 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 MIV8 (bipedal, tridactyl)
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
trackways MIV1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 12
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Brachyguanodonipus sp. Moratalla 1993 ornithopod
trackways MIV4, 5, 7, 9