Fumanya tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Fumanya Sud, South, North, Mina Tumi, Mina Esquirol

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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grey Garumnian Formation (Tremp Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bottom of Tremp Fm., on top of Limestones (Bona Fm.), "Garumnian"; "Grès à Reptiles" Member; C31r

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; yellow sandstone and calcareous marl

• "brackish paleoenvironment"; also described as a "detritic limestone"; tracks on "an extensive transitional mudflat under a subtropical humid climate"
• "silty detrital limestone", the "concrete level" with tracks is described as a "pale sandstone", infilled with "very finely laminated carbonate marls"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by L. Viladritch, M. Gorchs, Vila in 1986-2012

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• discovered 1986 by Viladritch, mapped 1996

Primary reference: J. Le Loeuff and A. Martínex-Rius. 1997. A titanosaurid megatracksite from the Maastrichtian of Catalonia (Spain). First European Workshop on Vertebrate Paleontology (Geological Museum, Copenhagen University), Geological Society of Denmark, Online Series 1:1-2 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48727: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.03.2005, edited by Kaitlin Maguire

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Sabalites longirhachis2 fan palm
palm leaf impressions, trunks
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Frenelopsis sp.2 Schenk 1869
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.4 dinosaur
eggs
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.1 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.3 theropod
trackway
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Pyrgulifera sp.5 Meek 1877 snail
impressions