Puerto de Tazones, Villaviciosa (Jurassic of Spain)

Where: Asturias, Spain (43.5° N, 5.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 6.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tereñes Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• orig. Lastres Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; gray marl

• "originally deposited along a muddy coast along a temporary inland sea"
• "gray marls"

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: R. Martinez, J. C. García-Ramos, L. Piñuela, J. Lires, M. Luna and D. Veigas. 2000. Dientes de Theropoda (Dinosauria: Saurischia) del Jurásico superior de Asturias, España [Teeth of Theropoda (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Upper Jurassic of Asturias, Spain]. In J. B. Diez & A. C. Balbino (ed.), Paleontologia em Portugal: História e Colaborações Espanha-Portugal. I Congresso Ibérico de Paleontología e XVI Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología Abstracts:109-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84205: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.09.2008, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ankylopollexia indet.3 Sereno 1986 ornithopod
MUJA1914, 1915
 Saurischia -
Neosauropoda indet.1 Bonaparte 1986 sauropod
tooth, JVLH-162
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
Camarasauridae indet.2 Cope 1877 camarasaurid
tooth, JVLH-163
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
JVLH-195, 196
 Avetheropoda -
? Carnosauria indet.4 Huene 1920 carnosaur
MUJA-0699, 1218, 1221, 1222, 1223, teeth
 Theropoda -
Maniraptora indet.4 Gauthier 1986 maniraptoran
MUJA-1224, tooth
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
? Carcharodontosauridae indet.4 Stromer 1931 allosauroid
MUJA-1219, tooth