La Magdalena tracksite, Préjano (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Barranco de Los Lobos, LMG

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.1° N, 2.2° 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; massive, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal lime mudstone and marl

• "lacustrine limestones with intercalations of marl"

•"mudstone limestone with abundant organic material, massive aspect, mild bioturbation, ostracodes and dessication cracks"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

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 68450: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Brachyguanodonipus prejanensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Moratalla 1993 ornithopod
7 tracks; trackway LMG-R1
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
track