Virgen del Prado tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as VDP

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Inestrillas Formation (Oncala Group), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; limestone

• saline lake
• "a layer of limestone about 40 cm thick, which is dark when freshly cut but brownish-yellow on the surface, with no appreciable sedimentary structures. In adjacent layers there are laminites and cracks due to drying."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Moratalla, Pérez-Lorente in 1991, 1993, 2004

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• discovered by an anonymous researcher

Primary reference: F. Pérez-Lorente. 2015. Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways of La Rioja 1-363 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226558: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.07.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp.
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar
scales and other remains
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
? Dinosauria indet.
? Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
bilobed tracks
 Saurischia -
? Sauropoda indet.
? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
 Theropoda -
Filichnites oncalensis n. gen. n. sp.
Filichnites oncalensis n. gen. n. sp. Moratalla 2015 theropod