Mas del Dolço (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Morella

Where: Valenciana, Spain (40.6° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 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: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Guardiola in 1998

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 169448: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hypsilophodontidae