El Canteret (6.0 m) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Morella

Where: Valenciana, Spain (40.6° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Arcillas de Morella Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• Originally described as from the Capas Rojas ("lower Bedoulian"), but since assigned to the Arcillas de Morella Formation (Mocho et al. 2023)

•bed located 6 m from top

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; ferruginous, gray, red, blue, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone

• "motely colored argillaceous sandstone, dominated by grays and violets, finely stratified in millimeters which have ferruginous intercalations with plant fragments and calcareous laminae."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by F. Yeste, J. Sanz in 1978

Primary reference: J. V. Santafé-Llopis, M. L. Casanovas-Cladellas, J. L. Sanz-García and S. Calzada-Badía. 1981. Un nuevo yacimiento de Dinosaurios en el Aptiense inferior de Morella (Castellón) [A new dinosaur locality in the lower Aptian of Morella (Castellón)]. Acta Geològica Hispànica 16(3):139-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45153: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.10.2004, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"plant fragments"
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Somphospondyli indet. Wilson and Sereno 1998 sauropod
"sauropod of Morella"; IPS M-EC 80-1 to 80-23
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ceratostreon sp. Bayle 1878 oyster