Santa Maria de Meya, secondary 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 152685: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2013, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Teiidae
"Rubiessaurus lapicidinarum n. gen. n. sp." = Meyasaurus faurai
"Rubiessaurus lapicidinarum n. gen. n. sp." = Meyasaurus faurai Vidal 1915 squamates
LP-0098 IEI/G
Insecta
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Antemnacrassa monreali n. gen. n. sp.
Antemnacrassa monreali n. gen. n. sp. Gomez Pallerola 1979 ground beetle