Cerrito de Olmo I, Aldea (Jurassic to of Spain)

Also known as La Almeza, Cerrito del Olmo

Where: Valencia, Spain (39.9° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• orig. assigned to the "Purbeck facies", also referred to "Weald" and to "Formación arenas y arcillas de El Collado". Later referred to the Villar del Arzobispo Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; gray, carbonaceous claystone

• "marshy environment in the context of a fluvial floodplain"
• gray carbonaceous marls and clays

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Albir

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• discovered by Juan Pablo Albir

Primary reference: M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, J. V. Santafé-Llopis, and C. Santisteban-Bové. 1995. Dacentrurus armatus (Stegosauria, Dinosauria) del Cretácico Inferior de Los Serranos (Valencia, España) [Dacentrurus armatus (Stegosauria, Dinosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Los Serranos (Valencia, Spain)]. Revista Española de Paleontología 10(2):273-283 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59089: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.03.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Dacentrurus sp.1 Lucas 1902 ornithischian
MCNV CO-1 to 7, 9-10, 23-24
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
MCNV CO-6, 8, 26 (cervical & 2 caudals)