Era del Peladillo tracksite: Aptian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
41 individuals
trackways 2PL 168; 6PL 2–3, 12–14; 35 isolated 6PL tracks
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Casanovas Cladellas et al. 1994 58 individuals
parallel trackways, 1PL8, 9, 10; trackways 2PL 160–167, 169–171; 5PL 2; 6PL 4–6, 8–11, 15; 29 isolated 6PL tracks
Coelurosauria indet. (Huene 1914)
Casanovas et al. 1995 6 individuals
Reptilia - Avetheropoda
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920
2 individuals
trackways 2PL 172; 6PL 1
Reptilia
Hadrosaurichnoides igeensis Casanovas and etal 1992
1 individual
trackway 2PL 173
    = Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881
Pérez-Lorente 2002
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
Hadrosaurichnoides igeensis n. gen., n. sp. Casanovas and etal 1992
Casanovas Cladellas et al. 1994 6 individuals
nomen dubium belonging to Iguanodontipodidae
trackway 11, footprint 3; tracks from 1PL and lower part of 2PL
Reptilia - Dryosauridae
Ornithopoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
Casanovas et al. 1995 10 individuals
5PL tracks; trackway 6PL 7; tracks 6PL 73, 76, 84
    = cf. Dinehichnus sp. Lockley et al. 1998
Díaz-Martínez 2011
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. (Marsh 1878)
Casanovas et al. 1998 7 individuals
tracks 6PL 42, 63/59, 86/78, 93/94, 119/118, 161/151, 180/179
Brontopodus sp. Farlow et al. 1989
Casanovas et al. 1995 2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:La Rioja
Coordinates: 42.1° North, 2.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.6° North, 9.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:700 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Aptian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 3
Key time interval:Aptian
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Enciso
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Unit C/4/12-14"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black,gray wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "wackestones"; "a layer of dark gray limestone about 30 cm thick"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:many
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
Metadata
Also known as:1PL, 2PL, 3PL, 4PL, 5PL, 6PL
Database number:84712
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-11-07 15:34:00 Last modified:2022-09-02 13:39:48
Access level:the public Released:2008-11-07 15:34:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
78658. M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, R. Ezquerra Miguel, A. Fernández Ortega, F. Pérez-Lorente, J. V. Santafé Llopis and F. Torcida Fernández. 1993. Icnitas de dinosaurios. Yacimientos de Navalsaz, Las Mortajeras, Peñaportillo, Malvaciervo y La Era del Peladillo 2 (La Rioja, España) [Dinosaur tracks. Localities of Navalsaz, Las Mortajeras, Peñaportillo, Malvaciervo and La Era del Peladillo 2 (La Rioja, Spain)]. Zubía 5:9-133 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

69025 L. Alcalá, M. G. Lockley, A. Cobos, L. Mampel, and R. Royo-Torres. 2016. Evaluating the dinosaur track record: an integrative approach to understanding the regional and global distribution, scientific importance, preservation, and management of tracksites. In P. L. Falkingham, D. Marty, & A. Richter (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps 100-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16844ETE M. L. Casanovas, R. Ezquerra, A. Fernández, F. Pérez-Lorente, J. V. Santafé and F. Torcida. 1995. Huellas de dinosaurio en la Era del Peladillo 3 (La Rioja, España). Primera nota [Dinosaur tracks in the Era del Peladillo 3 (La Rioja, Spain). First notice]. Zubía 13:83-101 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
82509 M. L. Casanovas, A. Fernández, F. Pérez-Lorente and J. V. Santafé. 1998. Ocho nuevos yacimientos de huellas de dinosaurio [Eight new dinosaur footprint sites]. Zubía 16:117-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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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]
69187 I. Díaz-Martínez, E. García-Ortiz de Landaluce, J. M. Ortega Girela, A. Hurtado Reyes, E. Martínez, N. Jiménez, L. Aldaiturriaga, J. Benito, A. Colina, A. Fernández, J. Martínez, A. Ortega, J. C. Pereda, L. E. Requeta, J. L. Sanz and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2010. Treinta años de trabajo de campo en los yacimientos icnológicos de La Rioja (1980–2010) [Thirty years of fieldwork in the ichnological localities of La Rioja (1980–2010)]. Zubia 28:167-178 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69196 I. Díaz-Martínez, F. Pérez-Lorente, X. Pereda-Suberbiola and J. I. Canudo. 2009. Iguanodon-like footprints from the Enciso Group (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) of La Rioja (Cameros Basin, Spain). In P. Godefroit & O. Lambert (ed.), Tribute to Charles Darwin and Bernissart Iguanodons: New Perspectives on Vertebrate Evolution and Early Cretaceous Ecosystems. Programme, Abstracts and Field Trips Guidebook 34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55394 E. García-Ortiz and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2014. Palaeoecological inferences about dinosaur gregarious behaviour based on the study of tracksites from La Rioja area in the Cameros Basin (Lower Cretaceous, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 40(1):113-127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
28419ETE E. García-Ortiz de Landaluce and I. Díaz-Martínez. 2008. Aportaciones de algunos yacimientos representativos la La Rioja al estudio del comportamiento de los dinosaurios [Contributions of somerepresentative localities of La Rioja to the study of dinosaur behavior]. Palaeontologica Nova 8:207-219 [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]
70569 A. Meléndez and F. Pérez-Lorente. 1996. Comportamiento gregario aparente de dinosaurios condicionado por una deformacion sinsedimentaria. (Igea, La Rioja. España) [Apparent gregarious behavior of dinosaurs conditioned by a synsedimentary deformation. (Igea, La Rioja. Spain)]. Estudios Geológicos 52:77-82 [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]
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78860 T. Price. 2014. New dinosaur footprints exposed in rocks of the Wessex Formation, Lower Cretaceous, at Sandown, Isle of Wight, southern England. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113:759-769 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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