Veracruz 1 (VE1) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Aragón, Spain (42.3° N, 0.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 30.4° N, 10.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• upper part of Gray unit; "Grey Garumnian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine delta plain; bioturbated, gray, calcareous mudstone and brown, yellow mudstone

• "fine-grain mixed sedimentation in a low-energy, transitional environment (e.g. lagoon or small ponds in the coastal area)" with evidence of wildfire.
• "a 5,7 m-thick level of bioturbated grey marls with abundant invertebrate and vertebrate fossil and plant remains. This level passes gradually upwards to ocher-brown mudstones without bioturbation." further refined (2024) to "in a 2 m-thick level of dark gray organic-rich marly mudstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, acetic,

Primary reference: M. Pérez-Pueyo, V. Gilabert, M. Moreno-Azanza, E. Puértolas-Pascual, B. Bádenas and J. I. Canudo. 2019. Late Maastrichtian fossil assemblage of Veracruz 1 site (Beranuy, NE Spain): wildfires and bones in a transitional environment. In F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor, J. I. Canudo, X. Pereda, & P. Huerta (eds.), VIII Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y Su Entorno. Libro de Resúmenes 111-113 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224902: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2022

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish
Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Loricata -
Crocodylomorpha indet. Hay 1930 crocodilian
 Loricata - Krokolithidae
Krokolithes sp.2 Hirsch 1985 crocodile eggshell
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet.1 Latreille 1802 decapod
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.1 Rafinesque 1835
Bryozoa
 Bryozoa -
Bryozoa indet.1 bryozoan
Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Spiniferites cf. ramosus1 Lentin and Williams 1973
Cycadopites
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Cycadopites sp.1 Wodehouse 1933
Ginkgoopsida
 Ephedrales -
Lusatisporis
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Concavissimisporites
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Pteridopsida
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Cyathidites minor1 Couper 1953
Matonisporites sp.1 Couper 1958
Polypodiopsida
  -
Biretisporites potoniaei1 Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Klukisporites scaberis1 Dettmann 1963
Cicatricosisporites sp.1 Potonie and Gelletich 1933
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Dictyophyllidites sp.1 Couper 1958
Equisetopsida
 Cupressales - Pinidae
Inaperturopollenites sp.1 Potonié 1966
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Bacumorphomonocolpites
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Bacumorphomonocolpites sp.1 Sole de Porta 1971
Magnoliopsida
  -
Echimonocolpites sp.1 der Hammen and de Mutis 1965
Rhoipites sp.1 Wodehouse 1933
Angiospermae
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 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
Liliacidites sp.1 Couper 1953
 Proteales -
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Hepaticae
  -
Zlivisporis blanensis1 Pacltova 1961 liverwort
Algae
  - Zygnemataceae
Ovoidites parvus1 Nakoman 1966
Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Patellasporites distaverrucosus1 Kemp 1970 spikemoss
Neoraistrickia truncata1 Potonié 1956 spikemoss
Neoraistrickia cf. robusta1 Brenner 1963 spikemoss
 Selaginellales -
Camarozonosporites insignis1 Norris 1967 clubmoss
Alisporites
  -
Alisporites sp.1 Daugherty 1941
Subtriporopollenites
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Sepispinula
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Chomotriletes
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Chomotriletes minor1 Pocock 1970