Barranco de Serrantes tracksites (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Villar del Río, Soria

Where: Castilla y León, Spain (42.1° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Huérteles Formation (Oncala Group), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• "aloformación Huérteles Ib"; 12 track-bearing levels

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty sandstone

• "sandstone-siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. L. Sanz, A. D. Buscalioni, J. J. Moratalla, V. Francés, and M. Antón. 1990. Los reptiles Mesozoicos del registro español [The Mesozoic reptiles from the Spanish record]. Monografias del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 2:1-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68446: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet.3
Crocodylia indet.3 Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.5, Kalohipus bretunensis2
Kalohipus bretunensis2 Fuentes Vidarte and Meijide Calvo 1998 theropod
Aves
  -
Archaeornithipus meijidei n. gen. n. sp.1
Archaeornithipus meijidei n. gen. n. sp.1 Fuentes Vidarte 1996 bird
256 tracks
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.3
Ornithopoda indet.3 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
 Pterosauria - Pteraichnidae
Pteraichnus manueli n. sp.4, ? Pteraichnus palacieisaenzi2, Pteraichnus longipodus n. sp.2
Pteraichnus manueli n. sp.4 Meijide Calvo 2001 pterosaur
MNS 2003/92/1
? Pteraichnus palacieisaenzi2 Pascual Arribas and Sanz Pérez 2000 pterosaur
Pteraichnus longipodus n. sp.2 Fuentes Vidarte et al. 2004 pterosaur
MNS 2003/92/5, 2003/92/6
1Fuentes Vidarte 1996; 2Fuentes Vidarte et al. 2004; 3Pérez-Lorente 2002; 4Sánchez-Hernández et al. 2009; 5Torcida Fernández-Baldor 2005