Santa Maria de Meya, main quarry (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as La Pedrera de Meià, La Pedrera de Rubies

Where: Spain (42.0° N, 0.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 11.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified limestone

• "distal areas of a large, shallow... coastal lake"
• "rhythmically laminated, lithographic limestones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by J.E. Gomez Pallerola

• Repository: Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs (Lleida, Spain)

Primary reference: J. E. Gomez Pallerola. 1979. Un ave y otras especies fósiles nuevas de la biofacies de Santa María de Meyá (Lérida). Boletín Geológico y Minero 90:333-346 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152684: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2013, edited by Jered Karr

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Dicondylia -
? Trichoptera indet.2 Kirby 1815 caddisfly
 Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae
Proraphidia gomezi n. sp.3 Jepson and Jarzembowski 2008 snakefly
 Dicondylia -
Neuroptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 lacewing
 Coleoptera -
Brevispinnatus paludis Gomez Pallerola 1979 beetle
 Hemiptera - Palaeontinidae
Ilerdocossus villaltai n. gen. n. sp.1, Montsecocossus sirerae n. gen. n. sp.1
Ilerdocossus villaltai n. gen. n. sp.1 Gomez Pallerola 1984 true bug
One in Gomez Pallerola 1979, additional specimens in Gomez Pallerola, 1984
Montsecocossus sirerae n. gen. n. sp.1 Gomez Pallerola 1984 true bug
 Dicondylia -
Orthoptera indet.2 Olivier 1789 grasshopper
 Blattodea - Mastotermitidae
cf. Valditermes sp.2 Jarzembowski 1981 termite
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Lonchidiidae
"Priscavolucris monteschi" = Lonchidion monteschi
"Priscavolucris monteschi" = Lonchidion monteschi Gomez Pallerola 1979 elasmobranch