Valdeperillo tracksite (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Also known as VLP

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.1° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• from units C11-12/3 and C11-12/3a

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

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

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 202007: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Brachyguanodonipus sp. Moratalla 1993 ornithopod
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
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