Valdemurillo tracksite: Barremian - Aptian, Spain
collected by Jiménez

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Parabrontopodidae
1 individual
Reptilia - Theropoda
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:La Rioja
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 2.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.4° North, 23.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:780 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Barremian - Aptian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2 - Cretaceous 3
Key time interval: Barremian - Aptian
Age range of interval: 125.77 - 113 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Enciso
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: near the base of the Enciso Group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
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:Jiménez
Metadata
Also known as:Préjano, VDM
Database number:61859
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-07-05 14:40:32 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-05 14:40:32
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

17869.ETE 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]

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]
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]
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]
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]