Barranco de La Canal tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Munilla, BLC, Nivel 1 Capa 3

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.2° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 9.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Enciso Group, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Unit 20, Leza Fm.? May be the same layer as at nearby La Umbria del Portillo. Equivalent to "Nivel 1 Capa 3" of Viera et al. 1984.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; burrowed wackestone

• sandstones; "a clayed sandstone with a lot of shale and clearly visible fine sand-size phyllosilicate material...burrows...are also seen."

•"a very fine-grained graywacke"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by L. Viera & L. Aguirrezabala in 1982

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. I. Viera, J. A. Torres, and L. M. Aguirrezabala. 1984. El Weald de Munilla (La Rioja) y sus icnitas de dinosaurios. (II) [The Wealden of Munilla (La Rioja) and its dinosaur footprints. (II)]. Munibe 36:3-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59099: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.03.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium vidalinum cerith snail
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.1 ornithopod
trackway 1-F
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Caririchnium lotus2 Xing et al. 2007 ornithopod
"ichnogenus" Iguanodon' trackways 2-1 to 2-4, 3A-E
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 tetanuran theropod
trackways 1-A, B, C, D