Cuesta Lonsal 1, Galve (Jurassic to of Spain)

Where: Aragón, Spain (40.7° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Villar del Arzobispo Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• middle of formation

•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: fluvial-deltaic; green claystone and white sandstone

• "green clays and marl beds alternating with white sandstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Herrero in 1980-2001

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• originally discovered by J. M. Herrero in 1980, and subsequently excavated in 1987 and 2001.

Primary reference: J. Pérez Oñate, G. Cuenca Bescos, and J. L. Sanz. 1994. Un nuevo Saurópodo del Jurásico Superior de Galve (Teruel) [A new sauropod from the Upper Jurassic of Galve (Teruel)]. Comunicaciones de las X Jornadas de Paleontología, Madrid 159-162 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53890: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano and Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Brachiosauridae
Galvesaurus herreroi n. gen. n. sp.1
Galvesaurus herreroi n. gen. n. sp.1 Barco et al. 2005 Galve lizard
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 theropod
GAOO/CL/14
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines3
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines3 Batsch 1788 turtle
 Testudinata -
Tropidemys sp.4 Rütimeyer 1873 turtle
MPG-374, articulate plates of a partial shell
 Testudinata - Plesiochelyidae
Plesiochelyidae indet.4 Rütimeyer 1873 turtle
MPG-720-1 and MPG-720-2, two fragments of costal plates