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.
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•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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Losillasaurus giganteus n. gen. n. sp.1
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