Also known as LCS
Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.1° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 9.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Enciso Group, Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)
• 12 track-bearing levels; lowest of the Los Cayos sites
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine delta plain; bioturbated, fine, ferruginous, quartzose wackestone and bioturbated, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal, sandy siltstone
•level S2–S3: fine, fairly massive sandstone with convex molds of bivalves; some doubtful tracks
•level S4: fine sandstone; theropod trackway; "fine-grained graywacke, massive, with iron crusts and abundant mottling."
•levels S5–S8: possible tracks
•level S9: sauropod track; "a graywacke, locally very quartzose, very fine-fine grained...incomplete shrinkage cracks, ferruginous crusts, bioturbation, and fragments of unidentified fossils"
•level S10: intensely dinoturbated fine-grained sandstone; "a fine sandy siltstone (locally graywacke) with iron crusts, bivalves, and bioturbation"
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected in 2003
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 85183: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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