Sant Romà d'Abella (SRA): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Spain
collected by IPS 1984–1990

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Troodontidae
Tamarro insperatus n. gen., n. sp. Sellés et al. 2021
Sellés et al. 2021
MCD-7073 (holotype): A partial right metatarsal II
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Casanovas-Cladellas et al. 1995 8 specimens
IPS-SRA-2 to 6, 9, 10, 14
aff. Rhabdodon sp. (Matheron 1869)
1 individual
IPS-SRA-1, 12, 13, 15, 16
    = Pararhabdodon isonense n. gen., n. sp. Casanovas Cladellas 1992
Casanovas Cladellas 1992
corrected as Pararhabdodon isonensis
2 maxillae, several vertebrae, limb bones (IPS SRA 1, 12-13, 15-18, 20, 22-26, 693-12, 693-13, MCD 8730–32
Reptilia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
Le Loeuff 1993
? Megaloolithus mammilare (Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994)
Vianey-Liaud and López-Martínez 1997
    = Megaloolithus siruguei Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994
López-Martínez 2000
Reptilia - Crocodyliformes
Alligatoridae indet. Gray 1844
Laurent 2003
teeth, vertebrae, osteoderms
    = Crocodyliformes indet. Hay 1930
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain State/province:Cataluña County:Lleida
Coordinates: 42.2° North, 1.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.1° North, 0.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:665 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tremp Formation:Talarn
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 70 m below late Maastrichtian limestones; in the "Lower Red Garumnian" strata
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:paleosol/pedogenic,concretionary,oncoidal,gray,blue calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "mainly composed of lutites, but with calcareous nodules in well-developed paleosols. Channel-like sandstone beds...that occasionally display oncolites at their bases, are interspersed among the lutites."
Environment:crevasse splay
Geology comments: paleosols, crevasse splays, and levees
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:many
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:IPS Collection dates:1984–1990
Taxonomic list comments:"new material (especially maxillar and mandibular elements) has revealed unequivocal hadrosaurid affinities....P. isonensis represents the first record of a lambeosaurine hadrosaurid from Europe" (Casanovas-Cladellas et al. 1998)
Metadata
Also known as:Sant Romá de Abella, Barranco de la Llau de Doba, Sant Romà-2; Sant Roma d'Abella
Database number:38893
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion, B. Gee Enterer:M. Carrano, B. Gee, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-13 14:45:00 Last modified:2023-11-09 13:22:33
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-13 14:45:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9758.5% 17900M. L. Casanovas, J. S. Santafé, J. L. Sanz and A. D. Buscalioni. 1987. Arcosaurios (Crocodilia, Dinosauria) del Cretácico superior de la Conca de Tremp (Lleida, España) [Archosaurs (Crocodilia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Tremp Basin (Lleida, Spain)]. Estudios Geologicos, Volumen Extraordinario Galve-Tremp 95-110 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

19388ETE M. L. Casanovas, X. Pereda Suberbiola, J. V. Santafé and D. B. Weishampel. 1999. A primitive euhadrosaurian dinosaur from the uppermost Cretaceous of the Ager syncline (southern Pyrenees, Catalonia). Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:345-356 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
10512 M. L. Casanovas, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, J. V. Santafé and D. B. Weishampel. 1999. First lambeosaurine hadrosaurid from Europe: palaeobiogeographical implications. Geological Magazine 136(2):205-211 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54836 M. L. Casanovas Cladellas. 1992. Novedades en el registro fósil de dinosaurios del levante español [Developments in the fossil record of dinosaurs from the Spanish Levant]. Zubía 10:139-151 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33851ETE M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and J. V. Santafe Llopis. 1998. Hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the pre-Pyrenees of Catalonia. in Jagt, JWM, Lambers, PM, Mulder, EWA and Schulp, AS (eds) Third European Workshop on Vertebrate Paleontology: Programme and Abstracts, Naturhistorische Museum Maastricht 16 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska/M. Oreska]
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41150 M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, J. V. Santafé-Llopis, J. L. Sanz and J. E. Powell. 1995. Nuevos restos de dinosaurios (Titanosauria y Ornithopoda) en el Cretácico Superior de las cuencas de Tremp y Dellà (Lleida, España) [New remains of dinosaurs (Titanosauria and Ornithopoda) in the Upper Cretaceous of the Temp and Dellà basins (Lleida, Spain)]. Estudios Geológicos 51:277-283 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19147ETE F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2006. Telmatosaurus and the other hadrosaurids of the Cretaceous European Archipelago. An overview. Natura Nascosta 32:1-55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41120 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2009. Telmatosaurus and the other hadrosauroids of the Cretaceous European Archipelago. An update. Natura Nascosta 39:1-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68006 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2010. Tremp, la vallata degli ultimi dinosauri [Tremp, the valley of the last dinosaurs]. Natura Nascosta 40:7-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56054 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2014. An overview of the latest Cretaceous hadrosauroid record in Europe. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 268-297 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
73885 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2020. The unusual tail of Tethyshadros insularis (Dinosauria, Hadrosauroidea) from the Adriatic Island of the European archipelago. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 126(3):583-628 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54956 F. M. Dalla Vecchia, R. Gaete, V. Riera, O. Oms, A. Prieto-Márquez, B. Vila, A. Garcia Sellés and A. Galobart. 2014. The hadrosaurid record in the Maastrichtian of the eastern Tremp Syncline (Northern Spain). In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 298-314 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]
55204 A. Galobart, A. Santos-Cubedo, M. Suñer and J. I. Canudo. 2011. Paleontological discoveries and studies. In À. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 1-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
80599 E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56237 Y. Laurent. 2003. Les faunes de vertébrés continentaux du Maastrichtien supérieur d'Europe: systématique et biodiversité [The continental vertebrate faunas of the upper Maastrichtian of Europe: systematics and biodiversity]. Strata, Série 2 41:1-81 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13022ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1993. European titanosaurids. Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume Spéciale 7:105-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61140 N. López-Martínez. 2000. Eggshell sites from the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in south-central Pyrenees (Spain). In A. M. Bravo & T. Reyes (ed.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Extended Abstracts 95-115 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33025ETE X. Pereda-Suberbiola, J. I. Canudo, J. Company, P. Cruzado-Caballero, and J. I. Ruiz-Omenaca. 2009. Hadrosauroid dinosaurs from the Latest Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):946-951 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]
81262 M. Pérez-Pueyo, P. Cruzado-Caballero, M. Moreno-Azanza, B. Vila, D. Castanera, J. M. Gasca, E. Puértolas-Pascual, B. Bádenas, and J. I. Canudo. 2021. The tetrapod fossil record from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Ibero-Armorican Island: an integrative review based on the outcrops of the western Tremp Syncline (Aragón, Huesca Province, NE Spain). Geosciences 11:162:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76284 E. Puértolas-Pascual, A. Blanco, C. A. Brochu and J. I. Canudo. 2016. Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary. Cretaceous Research 57:565-590 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
85350 V. Riera, O. Oms, R. Gaete and A. Galobart. 2009. The end-Cretaceous dinosaur succession in Europe: the Tremp Basin record (Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 283(3-4):160-171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
70303 J. L. Sanz. 2000. Yacimientos ibéricos de dinosaurios [Iberian dinosaur localities]. Dinosaurios: Los Señores del Pasado [Dinosaurs: The Lords of the Land] 267-299 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55401 A. G. Sellés and B. Vila. 2015. Re-evaluation of the age of some dinosaur localities from the southern Pyrenees by means of megaloolithid oospecies. Journal of Iberian Geology 41(1):125-139 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
75788 A. G. Sellés, B. Vila, S. L. Brusatte, P. J. Currie, and A. Galobart. 2021. A fast-growing basal troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the latest Cretaceous of Europe. Scientific Reports 11:4855:1-12 [B. Gee/B. Gee/P. Mannion]
86384 J. F. Serrano, A. G. Sellés, B. Vila Galobart and A. Prieto-Márquez. 2021. The osteohistology of new remains of Pararhabdodon isonensis sheds light into the life history and paleoecology of this enigmatic European lambeosaurine dinosaur. Cretaceous Research 118:104677 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55386 M. Suñer, B. Poza, B. Vila and A. Santos-Cubedos. 2008. Síntesis del registro fósil de dinosaurios en el Este de la Península Ibérica [Synthesis of the fossil record of dinosaurs in the eastern Iberian Peninsula]. Palaeontologica Nova 8:397-420 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
23594ETE M. Vianey-Liaud and N. López-Martínez. 1997. Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshells from the Tremp basin, southern Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain. Journal of Paleontology 71(6):1157-1171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55400 B. Vila, R. Gaete, A. Galobart, O. Oms, J. Peralba and J. Escuer. 2006. Nuevos hallazgos de dinosaurios y otros tetrápodos continentales en los Pirineos sur-centrales y orientales: resultados preliminares [New discoveries of dinosaurs and other continental tetrapods in the south-central and eastern Pyrenees: preliminary results]. III Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno Actas:365-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]