Presa de Enciso tracksite (2PRE) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Sueltas de la presa

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.1° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 9.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Enciso/Urbión Group, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• units C12-13/34sc and C13/4c1

•transition between these two geologic groups

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown limestone and black siltstone

• "brown limestone in a matrix of black silt"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),

Primary reference: M. Melero Rubio and F. Pérez-Lorente. 2011. Huellas en las obras. Reconocimiento y estudio de huellas fósiles de dinosaurio en las obras de la presa de Enciso (La Rioja. España) [Footprints in the works. Recognition and study of fossil dinosaur footprints in the works of the Enciso dam (La Rioja. Spain)]. Zubía 29:31-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 202008: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
group 2.1PRE
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Brachyguanodonipus sp. Moratalla 1993 ornithopod
2.2PRE1