Torremuña: Barremian - Aptian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832
Reptilia - Testudines
Salasemys pulcherrima Fuentes et al. 2003
1 individual
ICIPLR-1, several fragments of plates of a partial carapace
    = Chitracephalus dumonii Dollo 1885
Pérez-García 2012
Reptilia
Pholidosaurus sp. Meyer 1841
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp. Owen 1842
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:La Rioja
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 2.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 9.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Barremian - Aptian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2 - Cretaceous 3
Key time interval: Barremian - Aptian
Age range of interval: 125.77 - 113 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Enciso
Stratigraphy comments: Barremian-Aptian of Torremuña (La Rioja, Spain) (Fig. 1). Enciso Group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:white sandy claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "white sandy lutites"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ICIPLR collection, Igea, Centro de Interpretación Paleontológico de La Rioja, La Rioja, Spain
Metadata
Database number:131493
Authorizer:R. Benson, M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:R. Benson, J. Tennant, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-07-26 01:14:34 Last modified:2015-08-12 13:21:31
Access level:the public Released:2012-07-26 01:14:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

56063. A. Pérez-García, X. Murelaga, J. A. Torres, L. I. Viera, and F.-R. Sáez-Benito. 2010. Tortugas del Cretácico Inferior (Hauteriviense–Barremiense) de La Rioja (Cuenca de Cameros, España) [Turtles from the Lower Cretaceous (Hauterivian–Barremian) of La Rioja (Cameros Basin, Spain)]. Geogaceta 48:87-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

42442 A. Pérez-García. 2012. The European Lower Cretaceous Chitracephalus dumonii (Testudines: Cryptodira) and the diversity of a poorly known lineage of turtles. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(3):575-588 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Mannion]
45185 A. Pérez-García, X. Murelaga, and F. T. Fernandez-Baldor. 2012. Turtles from the Lower Cretaceous of the Cameros Basin (Iberian Range, Spain). Cretaceous Research 33:146-158 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]