Moror-A tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Tremp

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.1° N, 0.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 0.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Arén Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Garumnian facies"; grey unit, middle of C31r, near early/late Maastrichtian boundary

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray lime mudstone

• "a marly limestone layer, gray, bioturbated and bioclastic"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by C. Llompart

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. Llompart. 2006. Presencia de icnitas de dinosaurios en el Cretácico superior del margen sur del sinclinal de Tremp (Prov. de Lleida, Cataluña, España) [Presence of dinosaur footprints in the Upper Cretaceous of the southern margin of the Tremp syncline (Lleida prov., Catalonia, Spain]. Revista Española de Paleontología 21(1):1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 169295: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
trackway; MA1–MA6
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita" sp. Bruguière 1792 clam
valves
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod