Las Cerradicas tracksite (Jurassic to of Spain)

Also known as Galve

Where: Aragón, Spain (40.7° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Villar del Arzobispo Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• above levels of Cuesta Lonsal site

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•Age of Villar del Arzobispo Formation constrained to Kimmeridgian-Tithonian by Campos-Soto et al. (2017), rather than Tithonian-Berriasian of older literature

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; bioturbated, fine-grained, micaceous, gray, sandy, calcareous limestone

• near the contemporaneous shoreline, "fluvial-dominated delta plain depostis, showing local traces of subaerial exposure and scarce evidence for tide reworking."
• "this bed is a sandy limestone. Crystalline calcite forms the matrix for the abundant fine-grained angular quartz. The thin-section shows minot elements such as muscovite, garnet, dark minerals, calcareous fragments and agglutinated foraminifera. Sedimentary structures include penecontemporaneous ripple marks, vertical U-shaped burrows...and vertical burrows."

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1990-2005

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. Pérez-Lorente, G. Cuenca-Bescos, M. Aurell, J. I. Canudo, A. R. Soria and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 1997. Las Cerradicas tracksite (Berriasian, Galve, Spain): growing evidence for quadrupedal ornithopods. Ichnos 5:109-120 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58763: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.02.2006, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Textulariia -
Textulariia indet.
Textulariia indet. Mikhalevich 1980
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
? Therangospodus sp.2
? Therangospodus sp.2 Lockley et al. 2000 theropod
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.5
Ornithopoda indet.5 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
 Saurischia -
? Sauropoda indet.1
? Sauropoda indet.1 sauropod
undertracks
  -
cf. Sauropodichnus giganteus3
cf. Sauropodichnus giganteus3 Calvo 1991 dinosaur
juveniles, possibly gregarious
 Testudinata - Plesiochelyidae
Plesiochelyidae indet.4, Plesiochelys sp.4
Plesiochelyidae indet.4 Rütimeyer 1873 turtle
MPG-730-20 and -21, two fragments of costal plates, juveniles
Plesiochelys sp.4 Rütimeyer 1873 turtle
Several plates, MPG-730-1
 Ichnofossils -
Arenicolites sp., Skolithos sp.
Arenicolites sp. Salter 1857
or Diplocraterion sp.
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
1Canudo et al. 1997; 2Canudo et al. 2005; 3Castanera et al. 2011; 4Pérez-García et al. 2013; 5Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2004