Las Cerradicas tracksite: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Spain
collected 1990-2005

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiochelyidae
Plesiochelyidae indet. Rütimeyer 1873
Pérez-García et al. 2013
MPG-730-20 and -21, two fragments of costal plates, juveniles
Plesiochelys sp. Rütimeyer 1873
Pérez-García et al. 2013
Several plates, MPG-730-1
Reptilia
Iguanodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1850
1 individual
    = Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881
Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004
LCR 1-4, 8, 15, 16, 18
Sauropoda indet. (Marsh 1878)
Canudo et al. 2008 93 specimens
juveniles, possibly gregarious
    = cf. Sauropodichnus giganteus Calvo 1991
Castanera et al. 2011
LCR 9-14
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
3 individuals
    = Theropoda informal indet. 1 Marsh 1881
Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004
    = ? Therangospodus sp. Lockley et al. 2000
Canudo et al. 2005
? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Canudo et al. 1997
undertracks
unclassified
Textulariia indet. Mikhalevich 1980
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
Arenicolites sp. Salter 1857
or Diplocraterion sp.
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:estimated from map
Altitude:1291 meters
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
Local section:Galve Local bed:210 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: above levels of Cuesta Lonsal site

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:wave ripples,bioturbation,fine,micaceous,gray sandy,calcareous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "this bed is a sandy limestone. Crystalline calcite forms the matrix for the abundant fine-grained angular quartz. The thin-section shows minot elements such as muscovite, garnet, dark minerals, calcareous fragments and agglutinated foraminifera. Sedimentary structures include penecontemporaneous ripple marks, vertical U-shaped burrows...and vertical burrows."
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: near the contemporaneous shoreline, "fluvial-dominated delta plain depostis, showing local traces of subaerial exposure and scarce evidence for tide reworking."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),peel or thin section,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1990-2005
Metadata
Also known as:Galve
Database number:58763
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-02-23 13:44:14 Last modified:2024-01-30 15:31:59
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-23 13:44:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17617.ETE F. Pérez-Lorente, G. Cuenca-Bescos, M. Aurell, J. I. Canudo, A. R. Soria and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 1997. Las Cerradicas tracksite (Berriasian, Galve, Spain): growing evidence for quadrupedal ornithopods. Ichnos 5:109-120 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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69025 L. Alcalá, M. G. Lockley, A. Cobos, L. Mampel, and R. Royo-Torres. 2016. Evaluating the dinosaur track record: an integrative approach to understanding the regional and global distribution, scientific importance, preservation, and management of tracksites. In P. L. Falkingham, D. Marty, & A. Richter (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps 100-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17673ETE J. L. Barco. 2005. Estudio y comparación del esqueleto axial de un saurópodo (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) procedente de la Formación Villar del Arzobispo (Titónico-Berriasiense) de Galve, Teruel [Study and comparison of the axial skeleton of a sauropod (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Galve, Teruel]. Treballs del Museu de Geología de Barcelona 13:15-59 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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