Also known as Mina Santa Mariá
Where: Aragón, Spain (41.0° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 6.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Sedimentary Succession Member (Escucha Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• Precisely at the base of the layers with coal, in a succession from Late Albian to Early Aptian. Biostratigraphy based on nannofossils, forams, dinoflagellates, and pollen.
•Bone concentrations AR-1/19, AR-1/48, AR-1/57, AR-1/58, AR-1/70
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal and pyritic, black, gray, green mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: replaced with pyrite, coprolite
Collected in 2010–2011
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, chemical, mechanical,
• Palaeontological Prospecting and Excavations in Ariño, Alloza and Andorra Municipalities (projects 201/ 2010 and 201/10-2011)
Primary reference: L. Alcalá, E. Espílez, L. Mampel, J. I. Kirkland, M. Ortiga, D. Rubio, A. González, D. Ayala, A. Cobos, R. Royo-Torres, F. Gascó and M. D. Pesquero. 2012. A new Lower Cretaceous vertebrate bonebed near Arino (Tereul, Aragon, Spain); found and managed in a joint collaboration between a mining company and a palaeontological park. Geoheritage 4:275-286 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136754: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 04.12.2012, edited by Philip Mannion, Evangelos Vlachos and Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Trachyaspis turbulensis n. sp.2
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unclassified | |
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Osteichthyes | |
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Reptilia | |
Toremys cassiopeia n. gen. n. sp.5
Toremys cassiopeia n. gen. n. sp.5 Pérez-García et al. 2015 turtle AR-1-4893 - holotype (a nearly complete and articulated shell, and some appendicular elements); paratypes: AR-1-4863 (a relatively complete and partially articulated shell, and several appendicular elements) and AR-1-3923 (a partial and disarticulated shell)
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Aragochersis lignitesta n. gen. n. sp.6
Aragochersis lignitesta n. gen. n. sp.6 Perez-Garcia et al. 2019 turtle MAP-7824 and 7829, partial skeletons
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Hulkepholis plotos n. sp.1 Buscalioni et al. 2013 crocodilian AR-1/56: partial skeleton: skull, 3 vertebrae, rib, metapodial & 3 osteoderms)
Anteophthalmosuchus esuchae n. sp.1 Buscalioni et al. 2013 crocodilian AR-1/37, partial skeleton: skull, teeth, rib, limb bone & 16 dermal plates
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Europelta carbonensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Europelta carbonensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Kirkland et al. 2013 ankylosaur AR-1/10, disarticulated partial skeleton: mostly complete skull (AR-1-544), isolated L & R nasals (AR-1-133, 639), dentary fragment (AR-1-362), 15 isolated teeth (AR-1-323–325, 343, 358, 417–418, 423–424, 428, 454, 482, 563–564, 567), an atlas (AR-1- 649), 5 cervical vertebrae (AR-1-431, 449, 533, 637, 650), 2 cervical ribs (AR-1-450, 4452), AR-1-638 (?1st dorsal vertebrae), 7 more posterior dorsal vertebrae (AR-1-154–155, 322, 430, 448, 478, 535, 556), aection of synsacrum (AR-1-154), 3 isolated dorsal ribs (AR-1-331, 333, 476), 7 dorsal rib fragments (AR-1-339, 341, 427, 534, 641–642, 676), 3 caudal vertebrae (AR-1-562, AR-1-635, AR-1-636), 4 chevrons (AR-1-560–561, 569, 4451), coracoid w/small portion of scapula (AR-1-657), scapular blade fragment (AR-1-429), 2 xiphosternal plates (AR-1-252, 4675), 2 partial humeri (AR-1-327, AR-1-655), R ilium-ischium- pubis (AR-1-479), L ischium-pubis (AR-1-129), & 70 osteoderms (AR-1-126–128, 192, 234, 241, AR-1-246–247, 272, 276, 438, 444, 447, 461–462, 464, 467, 472, 496–530, 553, 651–653, 659, 675, 4450, 4454–4463)
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Gnathostomata | |
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish | |
Angiospermae | |
Gymnospermae | |
"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta
"Gymnospermae indet." = Pinophyta Reveal 1996 |