El Balsón, La Yesa (Jurassic to of Spain)

Where: Valencia, Spain (39.9° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 8.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Villar del Arzobispo Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• lower part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; fine-grained sandstone

• "dark gray mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. Company, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2010. New stegosaurian (Ornithischia, Thyreophora) remains from Jurassic-Cretaceous transition beds of Valencia province (Southwestern Iberian Range, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):243-252 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 137615: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.12.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Dacentrurinae indet. Olshevsky and Ford 1993 ornithischian
MPA D-317–320, 322–324, 330, 332, 333, 335, 337, 338, 344, 348