Mallorca Buntsandstein tracksite (lower): Early Triassic, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
"type B" (bipedal?)
"type Ca"
"type Cb"
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
"type A"
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Islas Baleares
Coordinates: 39.7° North, 2.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Early Triassic
10 m.y. bin: Triassic 1
Key time interval: Early Triassic
Age range of interval: 251.902 - 246.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Buntsandstein
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "lower unit"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks,paleosol/pedogenic,fine,red sandstone
Secondary lithology:desiccation cracks,paleosol/pedogenic,red claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "red massive or laminated lutites with frequent paleosols, which are intercalated with levels of sandstones with horizontal or planar stratification. The ichnites from this level are firmly encountered in one of the paleosols formed by fine-grained sandstones and lutites affected by dessication cracks."
Environment:"floodplain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:95349
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-04-13 13:27:12 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-13 13:27:12
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
32444.ETE F. Calafat, J. J. Fornós, M. Marzo, E. Ramos-Guerrero, and A. Rodríguez-Perea. 1987. Icnología de vertebrados de la facies Buntsandstein de Mallorca [Ichnology of vertebrates from the Buntsandstein facies of Mallorca]. Acta Geológica Hispànica 21-22:515-520 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

78047 I. Díaz-Martínez and A. Pérez-García. 2012. Historical and comparative study of the first Spanish vertebrate paleoichnological record and bibliographic review of the Spanish chirotheriid footprints. Ichnos 19(3):141-149 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]