ammonites
Fumanya North tracksite (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Cataluna, Spain (42.2° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grès à Reptiles Member (Tremp Formation), Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• bottom of Tremp Fm., on top of Maastrichtian Limestones (Bona Fm.), "Garumnian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; yellow sandstone and calcareous marl

• "brackish paleoenvironment"; also described as a "detritic limestone"; tracks on "an extensive transitional mudflat under a subtropical humid climate"
• "silty detrital limestone", the "concrete level" with tracks is described as a "pale sandstone", infilled with "very finely laminated carbonate marls"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Viladritch in 1986-2005

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. Vila, O. Oms, J. Marmi and A. Galobart. 2008. Tracking Fumanya footprints (Maastrichtian, Pyrenees): historical and ichnological overview. Oryctos 8:115-130 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 87103: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 04.03.2009