Orcau-2 tracksite: Early Maastrichtian, Spain
collected 1983
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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? Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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| "form C" | ||||||||||
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= Titanosauria indet.
Bonaparte and Coria 1993
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Vila et al. 2013 | |||||||||
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Ornithopodichnites magna n. gen., n. sp.
Llompart et al. 1984
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| "form A" | ||||||||||
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Orcauichnites garumniensis n. gen., n. sp.
Llompart et al. 1984
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| "form B" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Cataluña | County: | Lleida |
| Coordinates: | 42.2° North, 1.0° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° North, 0.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| 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: | 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Tremp | Formation: | La Posa | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: gray facies of the "Garumnian" = Tremp Fm. 8 levels with tracks within a thickness of 1.5 m. Site is above the level of site 7 of Lapparent. grey unit, lower part of C31r, near early/late Maastrichtian boundary | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | wave ripples,planar lamination,burrows,bioturbation,gray lime mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: gray, bioturbated micritic limestones facies F2A: "Limestones (mudst, wackest, packst and boundst) and few calcarenites / Light or dark greyish / Generally laminated, wave ripples" | |
| Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
| Geology comments: "Carbonate lagoonal mudflat" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | -multiple events |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1983 |
| Collection method comments: Project No. 1110 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 92448 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-11-13 15:11:15 | Last modified: | 2023-07-21 15:59:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-11-13 15:11:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31167. | ETE | C. Llompart, M. L. Casanovas, and J. V. Santafé. 1984. Un nuveo yacimiento de Icnitas de Dinosaurios en las facies garumnienses de la Conca de Tremp (Lleida, España) [A new locality of dinosaur footprints in the Garumnian facies of the Tremp Basin (Lleida, Spain)]. Acta Geològica Hispànica 19(2):143-147 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 9758 | 5% 17900 | M. L. Casanovas, J. S. Santafé, J. L. Sanz and A. D. Buscalioni. 1987. Arcosaurios (Crocodilia, Dinosauria) del Cretácico superior de la Conca de Tremp (Lleida, España) [Archosaurs (Crocodilia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Tremp Basin (Lleida, Spain)]. Estudios Geologicos, Volumen Extraordinario Galve-Tremp 95-110 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Carrano] |
| 55942 | M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas and J.-V. Santafé-Llopis. 1986. Dinosaur footprints in Spain with special reference to Lower Cretaceous from "Sierra de los Cameros" (La Rioja, Spain). In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 68006 | F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2010. Tremp, la vallata degli ultimi dinosauri [Tremp, the valley of the last dinosaurs]. Natura Nascosta 40:7-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 85350 | V. Riera, O. Oms, R. Gaete and A. Galobart. 2009. The end-Cretaceous dinosaur succession in Europe: the Tremp Basin record (Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 283(3-4):160-171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 70303 | J. L. Sanz. 2000. Yacimientos ibéricos de dinosaurios [Iberian dinosaur localities]. Dinosaurios: Los Señores del Pasado [Dinosaurs: The Lords of the Land] 267-299 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 55386 | M. Suñer, B. Poza, B. Vila and A. Santos-Cubedos. 2008. Síntesis del registro fósil de dinosaurios en el Este de la Península Ibérica [Synthesis of the fossil record of dinosaurs in the eastern Iberian Peninsula]. Palaeontologica Nova 8:397-420 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 61342 | B. Vila, O. Oms, V. Fondevilla, R. Gaete Galobart, V. Riera and J. I. Canudo. 2013. The latest succession of dinosaur tracksites in Europe: hadrosaur ichnology, track production and palaeoenvironments. PLoS ONE 8(9):e72579:1-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 55315 | B. Vila, M. Suñer, A. Santos-Cubedo, J. I. Canudo, B. Poza and A. Galobart. 2011. Saurischians through time. In A. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 130-168 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |