Mas de la Chimenea Alta (2.0 m) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Valenciana, Spain (40.6° N, 0.2° 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)

• "lower Bedoulian"; bed is 2.0 m from top of section; orig. "Capas Rojas de Morella"

•Villanueva-Amadoz et al. 2015: A Barremian age for this formation is established by its position below the Barremian – Aptian boundary, recently located based on ammonoids in the overlying Forcall Formation from the same sub-basin.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; gray, green, argillaceous, carbonaceous sandstone

• "argillaceous sandstones, greenish-gray, with 5% carbonates and organic remains"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in the 1980s

Primary reference: J. V. Santafé, M. L. Casanovas, J. L. Sanz and Y. S. Calzada. 1982. Geologia y Paleontologia (Dinosaurios) de las Capas rojas de Morella (Castellón, España) [Geology and paleontology (Dinosauria) of the Capas Rojas of Morella (Castellón, Spain)]. Diputación Provincial de Castellón y Diputación de Barcelona 1-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45162: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.10.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Osteichthyes indet. bony fish
"bones of fishes"
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
"bones of reptiles"
unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"carbonaceous plants"