QLO-1, Quintanilla la Ojada (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Burgos, Spain (42.9° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 2.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Valdenoceda Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• A transgressive lag deposit between the 'Rioseco facies' and the Valdenoceda Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; poorly lithified conglomerate

• Described as foreshore, but a carbonate setting

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• Repository: Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa/Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava, Vitoria Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain (Institutional acronym: MCNA).

Primary reference: J. C. Corral, A. Berreteaga, and H. Cappetta. 2016. Upper Maastrichtian shallow marine environments and neoselachian assemblages in North Iberian palaeomargin (Castilian Ramp, Spain). Cretaceous Research 57:639-661 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213729: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
"Carcharias heathi" = Carcharias samhammeri
"Carcharias heathi" = Carcharias samhammeri Cappetta and Case 1975 sand shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark