Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.1° N, 0.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 2.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Arén Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; red sandstone and limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Primary reference: N. López-Martínez and E. Vicens. 2012. A new peculiar dinosaur egg, Sankofa pyrenaica oogen. nov. oosp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous coastal deposits of the Aren Formation, South-Central Pyrenees, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Palaeontology 55(2):325-339 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 138571: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 21.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Sankofa pyrenaica n. gen. n. sp.
Sankofa pyrenaica n. gen. n. sp. López-Martínez and Vicens 2012 dinosaur |