Chera 0 (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Where: Valencia, Spain (39.6° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 0.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sierra Perenchiza Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Early to Middle Campanian; single bed, outcrop

•Company & Szentesi (2012) list this formation as late Campanian to early Maastrichtian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; silty, carbonaceous marl and lime mudstone

• "The formation is composed of fresh-water carbonate marls and limestones. The taxa collected and the sedimentological traits suggest a swamp or lacustrine environment"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• Dorsal and caudal vertebra

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. L. Sanz. 1986. Nouveaux gisements de dinosaures dans le Crétacé espagnol [New dinosaur localities in the Spanish Cretaceous]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 81-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 53918: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 16.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Philip Mannion and Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Turtles, crocodyliformes, other dinosaurs, lizards, amphibians
unclassified
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Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.5 Latreille 1802 ostracod
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.5 Cuvier 1795 snail
 Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Reptilia
 Squamata -
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Polysternon sp.5 Portis 1882 sideneck turtle
 Testudines - Dortokidae
Dortoka sp.5 Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996 turtle
 Testudinata - Helochelydridae
Solemys sp.5 Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996 turtle
 Loricata - Allodaposuchidae
Musturzabalsuchus sp.5 Buscalioni et al. 1997 crocodilian
 Loricata - Hylaeochampsidae
Acynodon sp.5 Buscalioni et al. 1997 crocodilian
 Loricata -
Doratodon ibericus n. sp.3 Company et al. 2005 crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodon priscus8 Matheron 1869 rhabdodontid
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.7 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
Unpublished
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
? Struthiosaurus sp.5 Bunzel 1870 ankylosaur
 Theropoda -
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
cf. Arcovenator sp.6 Tortosa et al. 2014 ceratosaur
 Theropoda -
Paraves indet.6 Sereno 1997 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.6 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
 Saurischia -
Lirainosaurus cf. astibiae2 Sanz et al. 1999 sauropod
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet.4 frog
MGUPV-6 (fragmentary right radioulna) - "Anura indet. 2"
 Salientia - Discoglossidae
? Discoglossidae indet.4 Günther 1859 painted frog
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet.1 Cuvier 1825 gar
unclassified
  -
Charophyta indet.5 Migula 1890
 Charales - Characea