Moli del Baró-2 (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Molí del Baró-2

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.1° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 1.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Conques Formation (Tremp Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Upper part of the ‘lower red unit’

•The Conques Formation is equivalent to the "lower Red Garumnian" facies. The Conques Formation was previously assigned a late maastrichtian age (Sellés and Villa 2015; Villa et al. 2015) Biostratigraphy and Sr stable isotope geochemistry suggest that the La Posa and Conques Formation are entirely early Maastrichtian, lying within chron C31r (see Caus et al. 2016; Oms et al. 2016; Fondevilla et al. 2016; Fondevilla et al. 2019).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; gray siltstone

• Fluvial, meandering river environment; oxbow lake
• Fluvial sandstone and conglomerate bodies (meander point bar and channel infilling) are common

•facies F5B: "Claystones and siltstones / Grey / Laminated / Abundant plant remains and sulphide accumulations, limited lateral continuity"

Size class: macrofossils

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169450: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.05.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
left femur, MCD-5031; "Form 4"
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus trempii Sellés et al. 2014 dinosaur
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