Where: Aragón, Spain (40.7° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 8.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Villar del Arzobispo Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)
• middle of formation
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•Age of Villar del Arzobispo Formation constrained to Kimmeridgian-Tithonian by Campos-Soto et al. (2017), rather than Tithonian-Berriasian of older literature
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; green claystone and white sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Herrero in 1980-2001
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
• originally discovered by J. M. Herrero in 1980, and subsequently excavated in 1987 and 2001.
Primary reference: J. Pérez Oñate, G. Cuenca Bescos, and J. L. Sanz. 1994. Un nuevo Saurópodo del Jurásico Superior de Galve (Teruel) [A new sauropod from the Upper Jurassic of Galve (Teruel)]. Comunicaciones de las X Jornadas de Paleontología, Madrid 159-162 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 53890: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano and Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Galvesaurus herreroi n. gen. n. sp.1
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Plesiochelyidae indet.4 Rütimeyer 1873 turtle MPG-720-1 and MPG-720-2, two fragments of costal plates
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines3
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