Mirador de Vallcebre (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.2° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Conques Formation (Tremp Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "lower red unit" of Tremp Fm. = Lower Red Garumnian; "located in chron C29r, 30 m below the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) bound- ary and just below the ‘Reptile Sandstone’ unit"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; bioturbated, fine-grained, coarse sandstone and red, yellow mudstone

• "at the base of a vertical 1.5 m thick lithosome of coarse- to fine-grained sandstones (Fig. 2), located within ochre and red mudstones...The base of the layer is highly bioturbated...No desiccation structures have been identified in the layer."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by Fondevilla et al.

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: V. Fondevilla, B. Vila, and O. Oms Galobart. 2016. Skin impressions of the last European dinosaurs. Geological Magazine 154(2):393-398 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224901: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet., Titanosauria indet.
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
skin impressions; IPS-93596 and IPS-93597
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
manus track; MMCERCS-1340