Barranco del Agua tracksite: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Deltapodus sp. Whyte and Romano 1995
10 specimens
BDA1–BDA10
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Aragón County:Teruel
Coordinates: 40.7° North, 0.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.6° North, 8.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian - Tithonian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Villar del Arzobispo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Age of Villar del Arzobispo Formation constrained to Kimmeridgian-Tithonian by Campos-Soto et al. (2017), rather than Tithonian-Berriasian of older literature
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:white calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: white calcareous sandstone, marl, and limestone; some with bioclasts (shell fragments)
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: coastal lake environments
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:219664
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-04-15 13:04:47 Last modified:2021-04-15 13:06:04
Access level:the public Released:2021-04-15 13:04:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

76444. J. Herrero Gascón and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2017. Hoof-like unguals, skin, and foot movements deduced from Deltapodus casts of the Galve Basin (Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous, Teruel, Spain). Ichnos 24(1):146-161 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]