PBDB Collection

La Cuesta de Andorra tracksite: Aptian, Spain
collected by B. Ochoa Martínez, L. Viera, L. Torres 1968, 1971

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae

	Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825		1 individual
	footprints, "type 1"; trackway LCA 1 = AND1
	= Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822	Viera and Torres 1979
	"type 2";
	= Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881	Pérez-Lorente 2002
	= Brachyiguanodonipus sp.	Pérez-Lorente 2015
	= Caririchnium magnificum Leonardi 1984	Díaz-Martínez et al. 2015
see common names

Metadata

Also known as:	Arnedo, Logroño, Navalsaz, LCA, AND
Database number:	173545
Authorizer:	M. Carrano	Enterer:	M. Carrano
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2015-10-01 16:14:22	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2015-10-01 16:14:22
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

56560.

M. L. Casanovas Cladellas and J.-V. Santafé Llopis. 1971. Icnitas de reptiles mesozoicos en la provincia de Logroño [Mesozoic reptile footprints in Logroño province]. Acta Geològica Hispànica 6(5):139-142 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

68758		I. Díaz-Martínez, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, F. Pérez-Lorente and J. I. Canudo. 2015. Ichnotaxonomic review of large ornithopod dinosaur tracks: temporal and geographic implications. PLoS 10(2):e0115477:1-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82548		F. J. Hernán Martínez. 2018. Estratigrafía y Sedimentología de las Formaciones con Icnitas de Dinosaurios del Grupo Enciso (Cameros, La RIoja, Aptiense). Memoria [Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Formations with Dinosaur Footprints from the Enciso Group (Cameros, La Rioja, Aptian). Memoir]. 1-490 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
78077		C. Martín Escorza. 2001. Orientación de la huellas de dinosaurios en la Sierra de Cameros [Orientation of the dinosaur tracks in the Sierra de Cameros]. Zubía 19:139-163 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78647		J. J. Moratalla and J. Hernán. 2010. Probable palaeogeographic influences of the Lower Cretaceous Iberian rifting phase in the Eastern Cameros Basin (Spain) on dinosaur trackway orientations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 295(1-2):116-130 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55588		F. Pérez-Lorente. 2002. La distribución de yacimientos y de tipos de huellas de dinosaurios en la Cuenca de Cameroa (La Rioja, Burgos, Soria, España) [The distribution of localities and types of dinosaur footprints in the Cameros Basin (La Rioja, Burgos, Soria, Spain)]. Zubia Monográfico 14:191-210 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78657		F. Pérez-Lorente. 2003. Aportaciones de los yacimientos de la Barguilla, Santisol y Santa Juliana (Hornillos de Cameros, La Rioja, España) [Contributions on the localities of Barguilla, Santisol and Santa Juliana (Hornillos de Cameros, La Rioja, Spain)]. In F. Pérez-Lorente (ed.), Dinosaurios y Otros Reptiles Mesozóicos de España 161-194 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82174		F. Pérez-Lorente. 2015. Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways of La Rioja 1-363 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78660		F. Perez-Lorente and M. M. Romero Molina. 2001. Icnitas terópodas del Cretácico Inferior de La Rioja (España) [Theropod footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja (Spain)]. Zubía 19:115-138 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56555		J. L. Sanz. 1984. Las faunas españolas de dinosaurios [The Spanish dinosaur faunas]. I Congreso Español de Geología, Segovia 497-506 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56569		L. I. Viera and J. A. Torres. 1979. El Weáldico de la zona de Enciso (Sierra de los Cameros) y su fauna de grandes reptiles [The Wealden of the Enciso zone (Sierra de los Cameros) and its large reptile fauna]. Munibe 31(1–2):141-157 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Country:	Spain	State/province:	La Rioja	County:	Navalsaz
Coordinates:	42.1° North, 2.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	32.2° North, 23.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Early Cretaceous
Stage:	Aptian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 3
Key time interval:	Aptian
Age range of interval:	121.4 - 113.2 m.y. ago

Geological group:	Enciso	Formation:	Villar Navalsaz
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed

Primary lithology:	desiccation cracks,shelly/skeletal,black,yellow lithified lime mudstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "limestones" "compacted limestone...black when freshly cut and yellow-gray on the outside...there are dessication cracks in the top of the layers." "a mudstone limestone with few ostracods and incomplete shrinkage cracks"
Environment:	lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: "littoral-lacustrine in a setting not influenced by the waves produced by storms"

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Spatial orientation:	life position
Temporal resolution:	snapshot
Spatial resolution:	autochthonous

Collection methods:	surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:	B. Ochoa Martínez, L. Viera, L. Torres	Collection dates:	1968, 1971
Taxonomic list comments:There are supposedly "type 3" dinosaur tracks from a quadruped (Viera and Torres, 1979), but later papers specify only a single trackway at the site.