Mina Esquirol-2: Early Maastrichtian, Spain
collected by Viladritch 2008–2012

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Anadromidae
Lychnus sp. Matheron 1832
Vila et al. 2013
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789
Vila et al. 2013
Gastropoda - Thiaridae
Vila et al. 2013
Reptilia
2 individuals
unclassified
Tracheophyta indet. (Sinnott 1935)
Vila et al. 2013
"undetermined plant debris"
Charophyta indet. Migula 1890
Vila et al. 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Cataluña County:Barcelona
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 1.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.1° North, 11.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1550 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Early Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.2 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tremp Formation:Grey Garumnian
Local section:Fumanya Local bed:12 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bottom of Tremp Fm., on top of Limestones (Bona Fm.), "Garumnian"; "Grès à Reptiles" Member.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,bioturbation,medium,coarse packstone
Secondary lithology:planar lamination calcareous marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "silty detrital limestone", the "concrete level" with tracks is described as a "pale sandstone", infilled with "very finely laminated carbonate marls". Mina Esquirol 2 is a "medium-coarse limestone (grainstone-packstone texture)"
Environment:lagoonal Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: "brackish paleoenvironment"; also described as a "detritic limestone"; tracks on "an extensive transitional mudflat under a subtropical humid climate"
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:abundant
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:occasional
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:Viladritch Collection dates:2008–2012
Metadata
Also known as:Fumanya North
Database number:87103
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-03-04 12:35:03 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-04 12:35:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
29308.ETE B. Vila, O. Oms, J. Marmi and A. Galobart. 2008. Tracking Fumanya footprints (Maastrichtian, Pyrenees): historical and ichnological overview. Oryctos 8:115-130 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

69056 D. Castanera, V. F. Santos, L. Piñuela, C. Pascual, B. Vila, J. I. Canudo, and J. J. Moratalla. 2016. Iberian sauropod tracks through time: variations in sauropod manus and pes track morphologies. In P. L. Falkingham, D. Marty, & A. Richter (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps 120-137 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55427 B. Vila, O. Oms, A. Galobart, K. T. Bates, V. M. Egerton and P. L. Manning. 2013. Dynamic similarity in titanosaur sauropods: ichnological evidence from the Fumanya dinosaur tracksite (southern Pyrenees). PLoS ONE 8(2):e57408:1-9 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]