Casa Fabà (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Les Olives, Orcau

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.2° N, 1.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Conques Formation (Tremp Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• lower part of the ‘lower red unit’ of the Tremp Fm; C31r of the early Maastrichtian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; bioturbated, red, calcareous sandstone and gray marl

• meandering river channel
• Surface of about 4m2 of a sandstone layer with carbonate matrix inter-bedded between grey marl strata

•facies F12B: "Mixed very fine- to coarse-grained sst, microcgl and cgl / Ochre and red / Lateral accretion surfaces, planar cross-bedding, current ripples / Purple, red and/or grey mottling, very bioturbated"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Site discovered by Ana Maria Bravo and Rodrigo Gaete in 2001

Primary reference: B. Vila, R. Gaete, A. Galobart, O. Oms, J. Peralba and J. Escuer. 2006. Nuevos hallazgos de dinosaurios y otros tetrápodos continentales en los Pirineos sur-centrales y orientales: resultados preliminares [New discoveries of dinosaurs and other continental tetrapods in the south-central and eastern Pyrenees: preliminary results]. III Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno Actas:365-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 171037: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.07.2015, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Hadrosauroidea indet.2 Huene 1954 ornithopod
MCD 4756 (L fibula), 4766 (L femur)
 Loricata - Allodaposuchidae
Allodaposuchus hulki n. sp.1 Blanco et al. 2015 crocodilian
MCD4757 (rib fragment), MCD4758a (jaw fragment), MCD4758b (right humerus), MCD4760 (right ulna), MCD4763 (left premaxilla), MCD4765 (right scapula), MCD5127 (dorsal rib), MCD5129 (right jugal and quadratojugal), MCD5131 (dorsal vertebra), MCD5134 (dentary fragment), MCD5139 (skull-table, exoccipitalis and left quadrate), MCD4769,MCD5126 and MCD5136 (lumbar vertebrae)