Santa Cruz de Yanguas tracksite (ST 0/1) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Los Tormos, Los Tormos, pterosaur

Where: Castilla y León, Spain (42.1° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• between levels ST-0 and ST-1

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy shale and sandstone

• "sandy shales and sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. L. Sanz, A. D. Buscalioni, J. J. Moratalla, V. Francés, and M. Antón. 1990. Los reptiles Mesozoicos del registro español [The Mesozoic reptiles from the Spanish record]. Monografias del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 2:1-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68447: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Pteraichnidae
Pteraichnus palacieisaenzi n. sp. Pascual Arribas and Sanz Pérez 2000 pterosaur