Pico Quemado (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Also known as Igea

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.1° N, 2.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.3° N, 21.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oliván Group, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 100.5 Ma)

• upper part of group (750 m from base; total thickness 900 m)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; red siltstone and lithified, quartzose, red sandstone

• "red and green siltstones with some intercalations of brown and greenish sandstones." Fossil is in "a very fine and compact, red sandstone matrix...quartoze and compact." These are within the "dominant red siltstones" of the section.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Gracia in 1985

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. A. Torres and L. I. Viera. 1994. Hypsilophodon foxii (Reptilia, Ornithischia) en el Cretácico inferior de Igea (La Rioja, España) [Hypsilophodon foxii (Reptilia, Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Igea (La Rioja, Spain)]. Munibe 46:3-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 170036: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.06.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
cf. Rhabdodontidae indet.
cf. Rhabdodontidae indet. Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
uncatalogued partial skeleton in the "Museo Paleontologico escolar"