Valdemayor tracksite: Barremian, Spain
collected by UAM & Iberdrola 1989

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
3 individuals
trackways CBC-R1 to R3, plus isolated tracks (20 tracks total)
Lockley and Wright 2001
    = Iguanodonipus cuadrupedae Moratalla 1993
Díaz-Martínez 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:La Rioja
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 2.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.3° North, 22.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1035 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Barremian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2
Key time interval: Barremian
Age range of interval: 125.77 - 121.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Enciso
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of Enciso Group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine lithified argillaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "fine-grained sandstone"; "a fine-grained shale sandstone"
Environment:fine channel fill
Geology comments: "toward the top of a paleochannel of fluvial origin"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
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:UAM & Iberdrola Collection dates:1989
Metadata
Also known as:Cabezón de Cameros, CBC
Database number:166231
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-02-06 15:28:32 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-02-06 15:28:32
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
54314. J. J. Moratalla, J. L. Sanz, S. Jimenez and M. G. Lockley. 1992. A quadrupedal ornithopod trackway from the Lower Cretaceous of La Rioja (Spain): inferences on gait and hand structure. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(2):150-157 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
54567 M. G. Lockley and J. L. Wright. 2001. Trackways of large quadrupedal ornithopods from the Cretaceous: a review. In D. H. Tanke & K. Carpenter (ed.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life: New Research Inspired by the Paleontology of Philip J. Currie 428-442 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
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]
54313 J. J. Moratalla and J. L. Sanz. 1997. Cameros Basin megatracksite. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 87-90 [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]
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]