La Cañada, Barranco de Escáiz (Jurassic to of Spain)

Also known as Escaiz, Losilla de Aras, La Carnicera, Los Serranos, Losilla I

Where: Valencia, Spain (38.7° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 7.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Villar del Arzobispo Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• originally described as from the "Wealden" Collado Fm.

•Age of Villar del Arzobispo Formation constrained to Kimmeridgian-Tithonian by Campos-Soto et al. (2017), rather than Tithonian-Berriasian of older literature

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; lithified, coarse-grained, micaceous sandstone

• point bar deposit
• "micaceous sandstones", "extremely hard"; "The sandstones have large grain sizes...mostly grains of quartz and the matrix is formed by felddspath and kaolin. It locally includes bones, fragments of carbonized plants, and soft clasts of gray clay."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1989-1995

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, J. V. Santafé-Llopis, J. Pereda-Suberbiola and C. Santisteban-Bové. 1995. Presencia, por primera vez en España, de dinosaurios estegosaurios (Cretácico Inferior de Aldea de Losilla, Valencia) [Presence, for the first time in Spain, of stegosaurian dinosaurs (Lower Cretaceous of Aldea de Losilla, Valencia)]. Revista Española de Paleontología 10(1):83-89 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39423: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.05.2004

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Losillasaurus giganteus n. gen. n. sp.1
Losillasaurus giganteus n. gen. n. sp.1 Casanovas et al. 2001 sauropod
MCNV - type
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Dacentrurus armatus2 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
Lo I-1 to 8; vertebrae orig. described as stegosaurid
Dacentrurus armatus2 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
dermal tail spine