Barranco de La Canal tracksite: Aptian, Spain
collected by L. Viera & L. Aguirrezabala 1982

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Reptilia - Megalosauridae
4 individuals
trackways 1-A, B, C, D
Reptilia
Casanovas et al. 1995 1 individual
trackway 1-F
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
Casanovas et al. 1995 9 individuals
"ichnogenus" Iguanodon' trackways 2-1 to 2-4, 3A-E
    = Brachyguanodonipus sp. Moratalla 1993
Pérez-Lorente 2015
Díaz-Martínez et al. 2015
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:La Rioja County:Munilla
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 2.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.3° North, 23.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1240 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Enciso
Local section:La Canal Local bed:80 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Unit 20, Leza Fm.? May be the same layer as at nearby La Umbria del Portillo. Equivalent to "Nivel 1 Capa 3" of Viera et al. 1984.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks,burrows,very fine wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandstones; "a clayed sandstone with a lot of shale and clearly visible fine sand-size phyllosilicate material...burrows...are also seen." "a very fine-grained graywacke"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:L. Viera & L. Aguirrezabala Collection dates:1982
Metadata
Also known as:Munilla, BLC, Nivel 1 Capa 3
Database number:59099
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-13 08:45:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-13 08:45:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
56568. L. I. Viera, J. A. Torres, and L. M. Aguirrezabala. 1984. El Weald de Munilla (La Rioja) y sus icnitas de dinosaurios. (II) [The Wealden of Munilla (La Rioja) and its dinosaur footprints. (II)]. Munibe 36:3-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

16843ETE M. L. Casanovas, R. Ezquerra, A. Fernández, D. Montero, F. Pérez-Lorente, J. V. Santafé, F. Torcida and L. I. Viera. 1995. El yacimento de La Canal (Munilla, La Rioja, España). La variación de velocidad en función del tamaño del pie de los ornitópodos [The La Canal locality (Munilla, La Rioja, Spain). The variation of velocity as a function of the size of the foot of ornithopods]. Zubía 13:55-81 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69193 I. Díaz-Martínez. 2011. Generalidades sobre las icnitas ornitópodas de La Rioja (Cuenca de Cameros, España) [General information about ornithopod footprints from La Rioja (Cameros Basin, Spain)]. Zubía 29:61-84 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
87408 I. Díaz-Martínez, P. Citton, and D. Castanera. 2023. What do their footprints tell us? Many questions and some answers about the life of non‐avian dinosaurs. Journal of Iberian Geology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69187 I. Díaz-Martínez, E. García-Ortiz de Landaluce, J. M. Ortega Girela, A. Hurtado Reyes, E. Martínez, N. Jiménez, L. Aldaiturriaga, J. Benito, A. Colina, A. Fernández, J. Martínez, A. Ortega, J. C. Pereda, L. E. Requeta, J. L. Sanz and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2010. Treinta años de trabajo de campo en los yacimientos icnológicos de La Rioja (1980–2010) [Thirty years of fieldwork in the ichnological localities of La Rioja (1980–2010)]. Zubia 28:167-178 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
55394 E. García-Ortiz and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2014. Palaeoecological inferences about dinosaur gregarious behaviour based on the study of tracksites from La Rioja area in the Cameros Basin (Lower Cretaceous, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 40(1):113-127 [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]
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]