El Oterillo II (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (42.0° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Castrillo de la Reina Formation (Oliván Group), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; intraclastic, brown, gray, red, blue sandstone and red mudstone

• top of a channel bed
• "the top of a sandstone bed with channel geometry, 50 cm thick and 8 m wide, and interbedded with red mudstones. The sandstone bed shows cross-stratification and scattered quartzite clasts. The color of the sandstone is reddish- brown and becomes grey-blue toward the top, where the dinosaur bones appear. In some parts of the site, just below or very close to the bones, a lag of quartzite clasts (1–2.5 cm diameter)"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2003–2006

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor. 2005. Los dinosaurios de Castilla y León [The dinosaurs of Castilla y León]. Patrimonio Histórico de Castilla y León 6(23):23-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68471: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.3
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Baryonychinae indet.1
Baryonychinae indet.1 Charig and Milner 1986 tetanuran theropod
MDS-OTII,81; MDS-OTII,84; MDS-OTII,85; MDS-OTII,86; MDS-OTII,99; teeth
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.1
Dromaeosauridae indet.1 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
teeth
 Theropoda -
cf. Carcharodontosauria indet.1
cf. Carcharodontosauria indet.1 Benson et al. 2010 allosauroid
teeth
 Ornithischia -
Euornithopoda indet.2, Iguanodontia indet.4
Euornithopoda indet.2 Sereno 1986 ornithopod
Iguanodontia indet.4 Baur 1891 ornithopod
 Saurischia -
Europatitan eastwoodi n. gen. n. sp.4
Europatitan eastwoodi n. gen. n. sp.4 Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. 2017 sauropod
 Loricata -
Crocodyliformes indet.4
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp.2
Lepidotes sp.2 Agassiz 1832 gar
1Alonso et al. 2016; 2Contreras-Izquierdo et al. 2013; 3Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. 2006; 4Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. 2017