Valdecevillo tracksite, level 100 (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as VAC, VA, Lastra 5-A, Lastra 5A

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.1° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 9.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; burrowed, bioturbated, micaceous, gray, blue sandstone

• "gray and bluish gray muscovitic sandstones"; "dark argillaceous sandstone...There are no sedimentary structures (ripples, mud cracks, or any other) on the top of the bed. There are many signs of bioturbation by invertebrates...Vertical burrows passing through the top layer give off galleries at their bases."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Branca, Casanovas Cladellas & Santafé Llopis, VIera & Torres in 1960, 1972, 1975, 1979–1980

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. L. Casanovas Cladellas and J.-V. Santafé Llopis. 1974. Dos nuevos yacimientos de icnitas de Dinosaurios [Two new dinosaur footprint localities]. Acta Geològica Hispànica 9(3):88-91 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61860: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Brontopodus sp.2
Brontopodus sp.2 Farlow et al. 1989 sauropod
"Groupo H" and "Grupo I" = VA13
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.3
Ornithopoda indet.3 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
VA28, possibly also including VA27 (orig. described as a sauropod walking bipedally)
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Caririchnium lotus1
Caririchnium lotus1 Xing et al. 2007 ornithopod
VA9–VA11, VA20, VA25
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.4, Theropoda indet.2
Theropoda indet.4 theropod
smaller form, VA29
Theropoda indet.2 theropod
trackway VA4
1Díaz-Martínez et al. 2015; 2Moratalla et al. 1995; 3Pérez-Lorente 2015; 4Sanz et al. 1990