Vegagete (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Also known as Vegajete, Salas de los Infantes

Where: Castilla y Leon, Spain (42.0° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Castrillo de la Reina Formation (Oliván Group), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• orig. assigned to the Pinilla de los Moros Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular, red claystone

• "a red clay lens"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1998

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca and J. I. Canudo. 2003. Dinosaurios (Saurischia, Ornithischia) en el Barremiense (Cretácico Inferior) de la península Ibérica [Dinosaurs (Saurischia, Ornithischia) in the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Iberian peninsula]. In F. Pérez Lorente (ed.), Dinosaurios y Otros Reptiles Mesozóicos de España 269-312 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68468: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Rhabdodontidae
Rhabdodontidae indet. Weishampel et al. 2003 rhabdodontid
"nov. gen."; also H. foxii and H. cf. foxii