Where: Castellón, Spain (40.6° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 9.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Arcillas de Morella Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• 37 m above base of formation
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•Villanueva-Amadoz et al. 2015: A Barremian age for this formation is established by its position below the Barremian – Aptian boundary, recently located based on ammonoids in the overlying Forcall Formation from the same sub-basin.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: delta plain; ferruginous, nodular, gray, yellow, sandy mudstone
•"grey‒yellow sandy mudstones containing limonite and goethite crusts and nodules"
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. Ortí, M. Guardiola Figols in 1998, 2002–2004
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Material deposited in the Museo de la Valltorta and Instituto Valenciano de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales de Castellón
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 169162: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.05.2015, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Protathlitis cinctorrensis n. gen. n. sp.4
Protathlitis cinctorrensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Santos-Cubedo et al. 2023 tetanuran theropod 8ANA-109, 3ANA83, 4ANA43, 4ANA69, 4ANA76, 5ANA78, 4ANA-11
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Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825 ornithopod | |
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