La Fonseca tracksite: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Valencia | County: | Los Serranos |
| Coordinates: | 39.9° North, 1.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.0° North, 14.2° East (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.8 - 143.1 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: | micaceous,white sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | blue marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a thick bed of white micaceous sandstone" | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | very poor |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 169865 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-06-02 11:31:48 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-06-02 11:31:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 55426. | C. d. Santisteban, B. Vila, and M. Suñer. 2007. Huellas de dinosaurios conservadas en materiales del cortejo transgresivo en cauces encajados. Jurásico superior y Cretácico inferior de Alpuente, Valencia [Dinosaur footprints preserved in deposits of the transgressive systems tract in incised valleys. Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Alpuente, Valencia ]. Geogaceta 42:79-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 55386 | M. Suñer, B. Poza, B. Vila and A. Santos-Cubedos. 2008. Síntesis del registro fósil de dinosaurios en el Este de la Península Ibérica [Synthesis of the fossil record of dinosaurs in the eastern Iberian Peninsula]. Palaeontologica Nova 8:397-420 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |