Sant Antoni de la Vespa (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Castellón, Spain (40.6° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arcillas de Morella Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• upper part of unit C; "middle part of the Arcillas de Morella Formation, 53 m above the base of the unit"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; tabular sandstone and gray marl

• "an estuarine environment inside an incised valley, during a highstand period"
• sandstones and grey marls; tabular thin sandstones in upper part of Unit C

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Guardiola in 1998, 2005, 2008

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 168887: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.05.2015, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Garumbatitan morellensis n. gen. n. sp.
Garumbatitan morellensis n. gen. n. sp. Mocho et al. 2023 sauropod