An Iberian stegosaurs paradise: The Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian–Berriasian) in Teruel (Spain)

Cobos, Alberto; Royo–Torres, Rafael; Luque, Luis; Alcalá, Luís; Mampel, Luis

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.024

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“…Sauropod tracks at Las Sereas 7 differ from others found in the Tithonian-Berriasian interval in diversity is composed of sauropod, thyreophoran, theropod, and probably ornithopod tracks. This ichnodiversity is consistent with other outcrops in coeval lithostratigraphic units, such as the Vega, Tereñes and Lastres Formations (García-Ramos et al 2007;Lockley et al, 2008); the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Pérez-Lorente and Herrero-Gascón, 2009;Cobos et al, 2010;Castanera et al 2010a;HerreroGascón and Pérez-Lorente, 2012); and the Oncala Group in Spain Pascual et al, 2012); the Iouaridène Formation in Morocco (Boutakiout et al, 2009;Belvedere et al, 2010); the Lourinhã Formation in Portugal (Mateus and Milàn, 2008); and the Morrison Formation in the United States of America (Lockley and Hunt, 1998;Milàn and Chiappe, 2009).…”

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“…In the Tithonian-Berriasian transition, several tracksites have been recorded in the Iberian Range (Spain). They formed in transitional, shallow platform to non-marine settings (e.g., Pérez-Lorente et al, 1997;Pérez-Lorente and Herrero-Gascón, 2007;Santisteban et al, 2009;Cobos et al, 2010;Castanera et al, 2011). Berriasian tracksites have been found in fluvial-deltaic deposits with tidal influence environ-ture as limping gaits or laterality (e.g., Dantas et al, 1994;Pérez-Lorente, 2003).…”

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Unusual sauropod tracks in the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. Cameros Basin (Burgos, Spain)

Fernández-Baldor¹,

Díaz-Martínez

Contreras³

et al. 2015

Journal of Iberian Geology

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The Las Sereas site includes at least 14 ichnological outcrops along 5.6 km, in the Lara area, southwest Burgos Province. 67 ichnites of dinosaurs are documented at Las Sereas 7, identified as theropod and sauropod trackways occurring in shallow carbonates of lacustrine environment. Sauropod trackways have intermediate-gauge and low heteropody, and show different anatomical features to other tracks found in the ichnological record, especially in the disposition and orientation of pes digits. They are similar to Polyonyx from the Middle Jurassic of Portugal. However, since they do not preserve reliable manus data they are classified as aff. Polyonyx. The three sauropod trackways are related to the same kind of trackmaker. They differ from each other only in size, and gregarious behavior has not been detected. Analysis of these trackways reveals changes in travel direction even when there are few tracks in each sequence. At the Las Sereas 7 tracksite, the pace length (PL), width of the angulation pattern (WAP) and the WAP/PL ratio and depth analysis via photogrammetry show a direction change in two sauropod trackways. This tracksite and that at La Pedraja are unique in the Tithonian-Berriasian interval of the Iberian Peninsula that occur in a lacustrine environment, and could be indicate of the relationship between the diversity of Iberian, Tithonian-Berriasian sauropod tracks and sedimentary environments.Keywords: Dinosaurs, Sauropod tracks, Tithonian, Berriasian, Cameros Basin, Iberia Resumen El yacimiento de Las Sereas se compone de al menos 14 afloramientos icníticos que se localizan a lo largo de 5,6 Km de longitud en la comarca de Lara, en el sureste de la provincia de Burgos. En el afloramiento de Las Sereas 7 se han documentado 67 icnitas de dinosaurios, identificadas como terópodas y saurópodas, producidas en un ambiente lacustre carbonatado somero. Las rastros saurópodos son de anchura intermedia y heteropodia baja mostrando caracteres anatómicos diferentes a los encontrados en el registro icnológico conocido, en especial en lo referente a la disposición y orientación de los dedos del pie. La mayor semejanza de estas icnitas saurópodas se establece con Polyonyx del Jurásico Medio de Portugal, pero al carecer de datos fiables sobre la anatomía de las manos en Las Sereas, clasificamos estas icnitas de Burgos como aff. Polyonyx. Los tres rastros saurópodos de Burgos se atribuyen a un mismo icnopoyeta, diferenciándose entre sí sólo por el tamaño, y sin que se haya detectado un comportamiento gregario. En el estudio de estos rastros pueden recogerse datos que informen sobre trayectos con cambio de dirección, incluso cuando lo que se conserva es una serie relativamente corta de pasos. En Las Sereas 7 la combinación de los valores de varios parámetros -longitud de paso (PL), pauta de anchura de angulación (WAP) y relación WAP/PL -y el estudio de la profundidad de las icnitas por fotogrametría permiten interpretar un cambio de dirección en dos de los rastros saurópodos. Este yacimiento y el de La Pedraja...

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Unusual sauropod tracks in the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. Cameros Basin (Burgos, Spain)

Fernández-Baldor¹,

Díaz-Martínez

Contreras³

et al. 2015

Journal of Iberian Geology

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“…Santisteban et al, 2002;Suñer et al, 2008;Santisteban et al, 2008;Pereda et al, 2009;RoyoTorres et al, 2009;Cobos et al, 2010), with an age range Kimmeridgian-Tithonian, and of the historical sites from the Benagéber area included here in the Aldea de Cortés Fm. In this regard Trullenque (1915) announced the presence of reptilian bones and assigned them to the Jurassic.…”

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Revisiting the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous of the NW South Iberian Basin: new ages and sedimentary environments

Campos-Soto

Benito

Mas

et al. 2016

Journal of Iberian Geology

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The study of the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous deposits (Higueruelas, Villar del Arzobispo and Aldea de Cortés Formations) of the South Iberian Basin (NW Valencia, Spain) reveals new stratigraphic and sedimentological data, which have significant implications on the stratigraphic framework, depositional environments and age of these units. Moreover, these new data encourage revising the previously proposed stratigraphic correlations between the studied units and those deposited in adjacent areas of the Iberian Basin.The Higueruelas Fm was deposited in a mid-inner carbonate platform where oncolitic bars migrated by the action of storms and where oncoid production progressively decreased towards the uppermost part of the unit. The overlying Villar del Arzobispo Fm has been traditionally interpreted as an inner platform-lagoon evolving into a tidal-flat. Here it is interpreted as an inner-carbonate platform affected by storms, where oolitic shoals protected a lagoon, which had siliciclastic inputs from the continent. The Aldea de Cortés Fm has been previously interpreted as a lagoon surrounded by tidal-flats and fluvial-deltaic plains. Here it is reinterpreted as a coastal wetland where siliciclastic muddy deposits interacted with shallow fresh to marine water bodies, aeolian dunes and continental siliciclastic inputs.The contact between the Higueruelas and Villar del Arzobispo Fms, classically defined as gradual, is interpreted here as gradual and rapid, because the transition between both units comprises few meters. More importantly, the contact between the Villar del Arzobispo and Aldea de Cortés Fms, previously considered as unconformable, is here interpreted as gradual.The presence of Alveosepta in the Villar del Arzobispo Fm suggests that at least part of this unit is Kimmeridgian, unlike the previously assigned Late Tithonian-Middle Berriasian age. Consequently, the underlying Higueruelas Fm, previously considered Tithonian, should not be younger than Kimmeridgian. Accordingly, sedimentation of the Aldea de Cortés Fm, previously considered Valanginian-Hauterivian, probably started during the Tithonian and it may be considered part of the regressive trend of the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous cycle. This is consistent with the dinosaur faunas, typically Jurassic, described in the Villar del Arzobispo and Aldea de Cortés Fms Keywords: Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic platform, coastal wetland, Foraminifera, Spain, Kimmeridgian, Tithonian Resumen El estudio de los depósitos del Jurásico Superior-Cretácico Inferior (formaciones Higueruelas, Villar del Arzobispo y Aldea de Cortés) de la Cuenca Suribérica (NO provincia de Valencia, E España) ha revelado nuevos datos estratigráficos y sedimentológicos, que tienen implicaciones importantes sobre el marco estratigráfico, el ambiente sedimentario y la edad de estas unidades. Además, estos nuevos datos sugieren que se deberían revisar las correlaciones estratigráficas realizadas previamente entre las unidades estudiadas y aquéllas depositadas en otras áreas adya...

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“…The three digits of LSI-S2 are round and blunt and similar to the short, bluntly rounded digit impressions of Deltapodus Romano, 1994, 2001;Milàn and Chiappe, 2009;Cobos et al, 2010;Mateus et al, 2011;Xing et al, 2013a), whereas the three distinct, sharper impressions in the LSV-S1 trackway (Fig. 10B), which were registered on firmer sediments (creating shallower tracks, approximately 4 cm deep), are similar to typical sauropod claw marks as seen in many sauropod pes tracks from the Cretaceous of Korea (Lim et al, 1989;Lockley et al, 2006).…”

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Diverse dinosaur ichnoassemblages from the Lower Cretaceous Dasheng Group in the Yishu fault zone, Shandong Province, China

Xing¹,

Lockley²,

Marty³

et al. 2013

Cretaceous Research

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An Iberian stegosaurs paradise: The Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian–Berriasian) in Teruel (Spain)

Cited by 73 publications

References 36 publications

Unusual sauropod tracks in the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. Cameros Basin (Burgos, Spain)

Unusual sauropod tracks in the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. Cameros Basin (Burgos, Spain)

Revisiting the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous of the NW South Iberian Basin: new ages and sedimentary environments

Diverse dinosaur ichnoassemblages from the Lower Cretaceous Dasheng Group in the Yishu fault zone, Shandong Province, China

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