L'Espinau (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.1° N, 0.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chenini Member (Conques Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• The Conques Formation is equivalent to the "lower Red Garumen" facies. The Conques Formation was previously assigned a late maastrichtian age (Sellés and Villa 2015; Villa et al. 2015) Biostratigraphy and Sr stable isotope geochemistry suggest that the La Posa and Conques Formation are entirely early Maastrichtian, lying within chron C31r (see Caus et al. 2016; Oms et al. 2016; Fondevilla et al. 2016; Fondevilla et al. 2019).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: A. G. Sellés, B. Vila, and A. Galobart. 2014. Diversity of theropod ootaxa and its implications for the latest Cretaceous dinosaur turnover in southwestern Europe. Cretaceous Research 49:45-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32322: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.06.2003, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
  - Fusioolithidae
"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis2
"Megaloolithus baghensis" = Fusioolithus baghensis2 Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus trempii n. sp. Sellés et al. 2014 dinosaur
IPS-58972, IPS-58990