San Vicente de Munilla VI tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as SVM VI, Nivel 2, Los Endos, END

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.2° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 9.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Enciso Group, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• 5 track-bearing levels at Los Endos ("tramos" 20, 23, 30, 31, 33).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; bioturbated, fine-grained, quartzose, shelly/skeletal sandstone and bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, black claystone

• tramo 20: "fine quartzose arenite with ostracods, bioturbation, and planar cross-lamination"

•tramo 23: "a black claystone with ostracods, bioturbation"

•tramo 30: "a fine quartzarenite with Fe crusts, cross-lamination and bioturbation"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. I. Viera and L. M. Aguirrezabala. 1982. El Weald de Munilla (La Rioja) y sus icnitas de dinosaurios (I) [The Wealden of Munilla (La Rioja) and its dinosaur footprints (I)]. Munibe 34(4):245-270 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 173547: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.10.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
isolated tracks
? Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
trackway B, 3 isolated tracks
 Ornithischia -
cf. Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825 ornithopod
trackway A