Cantera del Mas de la Parreta 1 (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as CMP-1

Where: Valenciana, Spain (40.5° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 10.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Arcillas 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: mire or swamp; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2006

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. I. Canudo, J. M. Gasulla, F. Ortega and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2004. Presencia de Baryonychinae (Theropoda) en el Aptiense inferior (Cretácico Inferior) de Laurasia: Cantera Mas de la Parreta, Formación Arcillas de Morella (Morella, Castellón) [Presence of Baryonychinae (Theropoda) in the lower Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of Laurasia: Cantera Mas de la Parreta, Arcillas de Morella Formation (Morella, Castellón)]. III Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61325: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.06.2006, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Baryonychinae indet. Charig and Milner 1986 tetanuran theropod
CMP-2
 Ornithischia -
cf. Iguanodon sp.1 Mantell 1825 ornithopod
 Pterosauria -
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
 Squamata -
Squamata indet. squamates
 Testudines - Xinjiangchelyidae
Brodiechelys royoi n. sp.2 Pérez-García et al. 2014 turtle
Amphibia
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Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758 tetrapod