Senda Miravete 2 (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Also known as Miravete de la Sierra, SM-2

Where: Aragón, Spain (40.6° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 9.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Castellar Formation, Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; carbonaceous carbonate

• "an extensive, shallow carbonate lake"

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. M. Gasca, J. I. Canudo, and M. Moreno-Azanza. 2007. Restos de dinosaurios de la Formación El Castellar en Miravete de la Sierrra (Cretácico Inferior, Teruel, España) [Dinosaur remains from the El Castellar Formation at Miravete de la Sierra (Lower Cretaceous, Teruel, Spain)]. IV Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno, Salas de los Infantes, Spain 63-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84212: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

 Charales - Clavatoraceae
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861 bowfin
 Holostei -
Semionotiformes indet. Arambourg and Bertin 1958
 Neopterygii -
Reptilia
 Squamata - Lacertidae
Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 squamates
 Pterosauria -
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithidae indet. Hirsch 1994 dinosaur
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Baryonychinae indet. Charig and Milner 1986 tetanuran theropod
SM-2/D1, tooth
 Theropoda -
Coelurosauria indet. Huene 1914 coelurosaur
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Macroolithus sp. Zhao 1975 theropod
 Ornithischia -
Iguanodontoidea indet. Hay 1902 ornithopod
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875 crocodilian
 Loricata - Atoposauridae
 Loricata - Bernissartiidae
Bernissartiidae indet. Dollo 1883 crocodilian
 Loricata - Krokolithidae
Krokolithes sp. Hirsch 1985 crocodile eggshell
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Testudinata - Testudoolithidae
Testudoolithus sp. Hirsch 1996 turtle
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod