El Mirador (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Coll de Nargó area

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.2° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• upper part of C32N (near the C32n-C31r chrone boundary); “lower grey unit” of the Tremp Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray marl

• High cemented grey marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. G. Sellés and B. Vila. 2015. Re-evaluation of the age of some dinosaur localities from the southern Pyrenees by means of megaloolithid oospecies. Journal of Iberian Geology 41(1):125-139 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 183157: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.12.2016, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata -
Ogresuchus furatus n. gen. n. sp.
Ogresuchus furatus n. gen. n. sp. Sellés et al. 2020 crocodilian
MCD-7149 - holotype
 Ornithischia - Cairanoolithidae
Cairanoolithus roussetensis
Cairanoolithus roussetensis Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 ornithischian
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithus aureliensis, Megaloolithus siruguei
Megaloolithus aureliensis Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid
Megaloolithus siruguei Vianey-Liaud et al. 1994 titanosaurid