Vadillos (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (40.6° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Collado Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• questionable formation assignment

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; red, argillaceous limestone and conglomerate

• lacustrine
• "red clays and thick gravels...the matrix in which the bones are found is a lacustrine limestone with charophytes, with an abundance of species identical to the marl levels"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by R. Curnelle in 1966

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

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent, R. Curnelle, B. Defaut, A. Miroschedji, and B. Pallard. 1969. Nouveaux gisements de Dinosaures en Espagne centrale [New dinosaur localities in central Spain]. Estudios Geológicos 25(3-4):311-315 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61320: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. theropod
postcranial materials
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodon sp.
Iguanodon sp. Mantell 1825 ornithopod
vertebrae
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.
Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
Flabellochara
  -
Flabellochara sp.
Flabellochara sp. Grambast 1959
Clavatorites
  -
Clavatorites sp.
Clavatorites sp. Horn af Rantzien 1954
 Charales - Clavatoraceae
Atopochara trivolvis
Atopochara trivolvis Peck 1938
subspecies triquetra