Cantera del Mas de la Parreta 2 (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as CMP-2

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: fine channel fill; green, red claystone

• intermittent channel
• "red, greenish, and mottled clays"

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 61326: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Reptilia
 Loricata -
Bernissartia sp.1 Dollo 1883 crocodilian
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp.1 Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Pterosauria -
 Ornithischia -
cf. Iguanodon sp.3 Mantell 1825 ornithopod
 Theropoda -
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Baryonychinae indet.2 Charig and Milner 1986 tetanuran theropod
 Theropoda -
? Allosauroidea indet.1 Currie and Zhao 1994 allosauroid
 Squamata -
Squamata indet. squamates
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet.1 Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog