La Cañada 1, Peña Carcena (Cretaceous to of Spain)

Also known as Igea

Where: La Rioja, Spain (42.1° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 9.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Enciso Group, Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• part of the DS 7 depositional sequence in the eastern Camerons Basin

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lime mudstone

• "littoral area of the mixed siliciclastic-carbonate lacustrine system"
• "calcareous level", "rocky matrix"; "The maxilla specimen was found alongside scree and within a marly limestone boulder. Therefore, the fossil comes from the limestones formed in the littoral area of the mixed siliciclastic-carbonate lacustrine system."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1983

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

Primary reference: L. I. Viera and J. A. Torres. 1995. Presencia de Baryonyx walkeri (Saurischia, Theropoda) en el Weald de La Rioja (España). Nota previa [Presence of Baryonyx walkeri (Saurischia, Theropoda) in the Weald of La Rioja (Spain). Previous note]. Munibe 47:57-61 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89278: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Spinosauridae
Baryonychinae indet.
Baryonychinae indet. Charig and Milner 1986 tetanuran theropod
MST-GA-2065 = CPI 477; maxilla