Vicari 4 (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Cataluña, Spain (42.5° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• base of formation; G. aegyptiacus zone (Unit 1)

•"Grey Garumnian"

•La Posa Fm. = early Maastrichtian (Fondevilla et al. 2019)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl

• "dark marls"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in the 1990s

Primary reference: J. J. Moratalla. 1998. Spanish dinosaur eggs. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 26-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36728: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.02.2004, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Euselachii -
Batoidea indet.2 ray
"ray teeth"
Gnathostomata
  -
Osteichthyes indet.2 bony fish
"fish scales and teeth"
Reptilia
  - Fusioolithidae
"Megaloolithus trempii" = Fusioolithus baghensis
"Megaloolithus trempii" = Fusioolithus baghensis Khosla and Sahni 1995 dinosaur
 Theropoda -
Coelurosauria indet.2 coelurosaur
VIR-4-T5
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
? Richardoestesia sp.1 Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
VIR-4-T6, VIR-4-T7, teeth