La Llau de la Costa tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.2° N, 1.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Conques Formation (Tremp Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• middle part of lower red unit, ?lower part of C30n, 185 m m below K/Pg boundary

•The Conques Formation is equivalent to the "lower Red Garumen" facies. The Conques Formation was previously assigned a late maastrichtian age (Sellés and Villa 2015; Villa et al. 2015) Biostratigraphy and Sr stable isotope geochemistry suggest that the La Posa and Conques Formation are entirely early Maastrichtian, lying within chron C31r (see Caus et al. 2016; Oms et al. 2016; Fondevilla et al. 2016; Fondevilla et al. 2019).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; gray sandstone

• "fluvial, meandeirng streams, crevasse splay facies"
• "poorly sorted grey sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

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

Primary reference: B. Vila, O. Oms, V. Fondevilla, R. Gaete Galobart, V. Riera and J. I. Canudo. 2013. The latest succession of dinosaur tracksites in Europe: hadrosaur ichnology, track production and palaeoenvironments. PLoS ONE 8(9):e72579:1-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 171122: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Hadrosauropodus sp. Lockley et al. 2003 ornithopod
some in trackways; MCD-5140 to 5143