Valdecevillo tracksite, level 100: Aptian, Spain
collected by Branca, Casanovas Cladellas & Santafé Llopis, VIera & Torres 1960, 1972, 1975, 1979–1980

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Theropoda
Megalosauripus sp. Lessertisseur 1955
1 individual
trackway VA4
Sanz et al. 1990
Moratalla et al. 1995
Sanz et al. 1990 1 individual
smaller form, VA29
Reptilia
Pérez-Lorente 2015 1 individual
VA28, possibly also including VA27 (orig. described as a sauropod walking bipedally)
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
5 individuals
VA9–VA11, VA20, VA25
    = Brachyguanodonipus sp. Moratalla 1993
Pérez-Lorente 2015
Díaz-Martínez et al. 2015
Reptilia
Moratalla et al. 1995 1 individual
"Groupo H" and "Grupo I" = VA13
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:La Rioja
Coordinates: 42.1° North, 2.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° North, 23.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:797 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:Valdecevillo Local bed:100 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,bioturbation,micaceous,gray,blue sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "gray and bluish gray muscovitic sandstones"; "dark argillaceous sandstone...There are no sedimentary structures (ripples, mud cracks, or any other) on the top of the bed. There are many signs of bioturbation by invertebrates...Vertical burrows passing through the top layer give off galleries at their bases."
Environment:lacustrine - large
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:many
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:Branca, Casanovas Cladellas & Santafé Llopis, VIera & Torres Collection dates:1960, 1972, 1975, 1979–1980
Metadata
Also known as:VAC, VA, Lastra 5-A, Lastra 5A
Database number:61860
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-07-05 14:43:09 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-05 14:43:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
56559. M. L. Casanovas Cladellas and J.-V. Santafé Llopis. 1974. Dos nuevos yacimientos de icnitas de Dinosaurios [Two new dinosaur footprint localities]. Acta Geològica Hispànica 9(3):88-91 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

41151 M. L. Casanovas, A. Fernández, F. Pérez-Lorente and J. V. Santafé. 1997. Sauropod trackways from site El Sobaquillo (Munilla, La Rioja, Spain) indicate amble walking. Ichnos 5:101-107 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78672 I. Díaz-Martínez, E. García-Ortiz de Landaluce, F. Pérez-Lorente, A. Casas, and A. Jiménez-Vela. 2010. Virgen del Campo, La Senoba y Barranco de Valdecevillo: tras las huellas de los dinosaurios de Enciso [Virgen del Campo, La Senoba and Barranco de Valdecevillo: after the dinosaur footprints of Enciso]. VIII Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología. Volumen de Actas. Cidaris 30:339-348 [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]
82180 J. O. Farlow. 1992. Sauropod tracks and trackmakers: integrating the ichnological and skeletal records. Zubía 10:89-138 [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]
28419ETE E. García-Ortiz de Landaluce and I. Díaz-Martínez. 2008. Aportaciones de algunos yacimientos representativos la La Rioja al estudio del comportamiento de los dinosaurios [Contributions of somerepresentative localities of La Rioja to the study of dinosaur behavior]. Palaeontologica Nova 8:207-219 [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]
69201 M. Melero Rubio and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2011. Huellas en las obras. Reconocimiento y estudio de huellas fósiles de dinosaurio en las obras de la presa de Enciso (La Rioja. España) [Footprints in the works. Recognition and study of fossil dinosaur footprints in the works of the Enciso dam (La Rioja. Spain)]. Zubía 29:31-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17869ETE J. J. Moratalla, J. García-Mondéjar, V. F. Santos, M. G. Lockley, J. L. Sanz and S. Jiménez. 1995. Sauropod trackways from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:75-83 [M. Carrano/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]
78697 J. J. Moratalla, J. L. Sanz, and S. Jimenez. 1988. Multivariate analysis on Lower Cretaceous dinosaur footprints: discrimination between ornithopods and theropods. Geobios 21(4):395-408 [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]
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]
55488 M. Romano, M. A. Whyte, and S. J. Jackson. 2007. Trackway ratio: A new look at trackway gauge in the analysis of quadrupedal dinosaur trackways and its implications for ichnotaxonomy. Ichnos 14(3–4):257-270 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19339ETE J. L. Sanz, A. D. Buscalioni, J. J. Moratalla, V. Francés, and M. Antón. 1990. Los reptiles Mesozoicos del registro español [The Mesozoic reptiles from the Spanish record]. Monografias del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 2:1-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
75852 A. Torices, J. M. Valle Melón, G. Elorriaga Aguirre and P. Navarro Lorbés Rodríguez Miranda. 2020. Multiscale geometric 3D recording of palaeontological heritage in La Rioja (Spain): regional context, sites, tracks and individual fossils. Journal of Iberian Geology 46:465-474 [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]