Also known as Valdete, VLD
Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.1° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 8.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Enciso Group, Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray wackestone and marl
•"a gray limestone that has turned a yellowish color on weathering...Sedimentary structures are only laminites, with possible interference ripples and dessication cracks at the top."
•"a biomicrite rich in organic material, with wackestone texture"
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by S. Jiménez in 1985, 1993–1994
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. J. Moratalla, J. L. Sanz, and S. Jiménez. 1988. Nueva evidencia icnologica de dinosaurios en el Cretácico Inferior de La Rioja (España) [New ichnological evidence of dinosaurs in the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja (Spain)]. Estudios Geológicos 44:119-131 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 68449: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.01.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Iguanodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1850 iguanodontid trackway with 15 tracks, dinosaur apparently was limping
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