La Maca 3, Galve (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as La Maca-3

Where: Aragón, Spain (40.7° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 9.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Camarillas Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• Unit 3, middle part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; red claystone and sandstone

• floodplain deposits
• "from the red clays subjacent to the sandstone banks"; "lutites"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. M. Herrero, D. D. Fernández-Galiano in 1958–1959

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Discovered by Herrero in 1958 and initially collected by him and Fernández-Galiano that year; Lapparent visited the site with Herrero, P. Atrián, and G. Gómez to further collect.

Primary reference: D. Fernández Galiano. 1960. Yacimientos de dinosaurios en Galve (Teruel) [Dinosaur localities in Galve (Teruel)]. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Sección Geológica 58:95-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68489: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.01.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
"Lepidotes" sp.4 Agassiz 1832 gar
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.1 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
MPZ 98/2
 Theropoda -
? Allosauroidea indet.5 Currie and Zhao 1994 allosauroid
MPZ 2005/316-317
 Ornithischia -
Delapparentia turolensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Delapparentia turolensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Ruiz-Omeñaca 2011 ornithopod
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.2 crocodilian
"crocodile"
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.2 Batsch 1788 turtle
"turtle"
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp.2 Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel