ANA quarry, Cinctorres (Cretaceous of Spain)

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

•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

• incised valleys in delta plain; "a shallow low-energy estuarine environment"
• "two meters of yellowish-gray sandy marl that contains crusts and nodules of goethite"

•"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

Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet.2 Huxley 1880 bony fish
"fishes"
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.1 Owen 1842 dinosaur
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
second type of theropod; incl. 3ANA67
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Protathlitis cinctorrensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Santos-Cubedo et al. 2023 tetanuran theropod
8ANA-109, 3ANA83, 4ANA43, 4ANA69, 4ANA76, 5ANA78, 4ANA-11
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825 ornithopod
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.3 Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
R femur
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet.2 Owen 1842 crocodilian
Chondrichthyes
 Elasmobranchii -
Elasmobranchii indet.2 elasmobranch
"sharks"