La Cautiva 2, RD-27: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Spain
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Eusauropoda indet.
Upchurch 1995
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| RD-27-65R, caudal vertebra | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Teruel |
| Coordinates: | 40.1° North, 1.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.2° North, 8.1° East | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.80000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Villar del Arzobispo | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: high in formation
Age of Villar del Arzobispo Formation constrained to Kimmeridgian-Tithonian by Campos-Soto et al. (2017), rather than Tithonian-Berriasian of older literature | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | claystone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Riodeva | ||
| Database number: | 58761 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-02-23 13:02:02 | Last modified: | 2022-09-09 15:38:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-23 13:02:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16673. | ETE | R. Royo-Torres and A. Cobos. 2005. Presencia en Riodeva (Teruel) de la mayor vértebra caudal (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) de Europa [Presence in Riodeva of the largest caudal vertebra (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) in Europe]. Geogaceta 38:23-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 82566 | L. Alcalá, L. Luque, A. Aberasturi, D. Ayala, A. Cobos, E. Espílez, F. Gascó, A. González, L. Mampel and R. Royo-Torres. 2010. El dinosaurio gigante de Riodeva: nacido para enseñar [Riodeva’s giant dinosaur: born to teach]. Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra 18(1):97-106 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 19463 | R. Royo-Torres, A. Cobos, and L. Alcalá. 2006. A giant European dinosaur and a new sauropod clade. Science 314:1925-1927 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 28737 | ETE | R. Royo-Torres, A. Cobos, A. Aberasturi, E. Espílez, I. Fierro, A. González, L. Luque, L. Mampel, and L. Alcalá. 2007. Riodeva sites (Teruel, Spain) shedding light to European sauropod phylogeny. Geogaceta 41:183-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |